MV Princess Miral was a Belizian-flagged, Turkish-owned cargo ship which ran aground and sank off the coast of India in June 2022.
[1] On 20 June 2022, Princess Miral was transiting off the coast of Ullal, India, while carrying a cargo of steel coils from Malaysia to Lebanon.
[2] During severe weather, the ship sustained a serious hull breach towards its front and was taking on water, and it was grounded in order to prevent sinking.
Instead, a Singapore-based agency began to investigate ways to extract the remaining 220 tonnes of fuel from the ship in order to prevent a spill.
According to the UN International Labor Organisation, the Ship Operator attempted to make the crew sign fake wage receipts to demonstrate that they had been paid,[7] threatening to withhold their repatriation until they had done so.