Four officer cadets had been due to leave Hanjin vessel on 2 September but firm’s collapse prevented it from docking

The four-week ordeal of four officer cadets from a Scottish college stranded in the Indian Ocean has come to an end after the ship they were on was allowed to dock in Singapore.

The ship had been stuck at sea after its owner filed for bankruptcy. It is understood Singapore’s high court granted a temporary reprieve for Hanjin Shipping vessels to dock without fear of being seized.

The cadets from Clyde Marine Training had been on a placement with the South Korean firm as part of their City of Glasgow College course. They joined the Liberia-flagged Hanjin Louisiana in May and had been due to leave the vessel on 2 September. Hanjin Shipping filed for bankruptcy on 31 August.



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Rhona Maclennan, the mother of one of the cadets, Ruaridh Hanna, 22, told BBC Scotland the ship had now docked in Singapore and said it was a “big relief”. She said her son was expected to be back in the UK by Thursday morning.

Maclennan said she had been able to communicate with him only by email over the past few weeks. The cadets had found information about the situation “very thin on the ground”, she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“Nobody seemed to know what was happening, I think that was the hardest part,” she said. “They weren’t allowed to go into port. There was a supply boat went in about a week ago to resupply the boat and the cadets were told they would possibly get off on that but that never happened, so their hopes were dashed.

“I think that was the hardest part for them, not knowing, and they were told they could still be on the boat up till December, which wasn’t great news.”