A Greek seafarer has died on an AP Moller-Maersk container ship in the Atlantic.
The 5,466-teu Maersk Ganges (built 2014) was en route to Lome in Togo from Algeciras in Spain, but made an emergency stop in Tenerife on Monday, the Atlantico Hoy website reported.
Police sources said the body of the deck crew member was taken from the Singapore-flagged vessel at the east dock in the port of Santa Cruz.
The seafarer had only been on board the boxship for a month, the report said.
The cause of death has not been revealed.
The body is now at the Institute of Legal Medicine. The coroner in charge of carrying out a post-mortem has found no signs of violence.
Ship agency Marmedsa was involved in the operation at Santa Cruz.
The company told the newspaper it could not make any statement about the deceased or the cause of death due to a matter of data protection.
Maersk told TradeWinds: “We can confirm that in the morning 25 June, a third party-contracted crew member was found deceased in his cabin on board one of our vessels. There was no sign of foul play or criminal act.”
“Information to family, repatriation and follow-up has been carried out in careful collaboration with the third-party contractor and relevant authorities,” it added.
The body will eventually be repatriated by the Memora funeral company, which has also declined to comment.
Police said it is usual in such a case for the shipowner to pay for the removal of the body.
AIS data shows the ship left Tenerife on 27 June and was underway to Lome on Thursday.
The vessel has a clean port-state-control detention record.
However, two deficiencies were found during a check in Nigeria last year involving its auxiliary engine and deck corrosion.
Insurance is provided by the Britannia P&I Club in the UK.
