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Malaviya Seven update
Malaviya Seven update
The ITF (International Transport
Workers’ Federation) yesterday arrested the ship Malaviya
Seven on behalf of its crew. The move is the latest by the
ITF in support of the crew of the vessel, which has been
effectively abandoned in Aberdeen, Scotland by its owners,
and detained by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at the
federation’s request (see https://goo.gl/ddzOFU).
ITF inspector Liam Wilson has been assisting the crew members, who are of Indian nationality, since June last year, when a routine inspection revealed that 15 of them had gone unpaid for four months. He explained: “We’ve been helping these men since the beginning, particularly with their basic needs such as food and water, while working to recover the money that is due to them. I’d like to thank the local community and seafarers’ welfare organisations for their support too.
“We have reached a point where the only way that these men are going to get home with the money they are due is to help them arrest the ship, and we have now taken that move. We anticipate that within the next, say, 12 to 16 weeks, the ship will be sold and what is owed to them recovered from the sale price. This would replicate the experience of the Seven’s sister ship, the Malaviya Twenty, which was detained in Great Yarmouth, and where we were pleased to be able to help the crew home, with their pay, last month.” (See https://goo.gl/EGYS3f.)
ITF UK
and Ireland coordinator Ken Fleming commented: “To say
that workers are owed USD666,938.03 is in itself a scandal.
The owners and the Indian flag state should hang their head
in shame. Equally all those that could have brought the
situation to an end months ago should reflect on their
inactivity,
“My organisation the ITF will now deal
aggressively with the situation. Should the company or the
bank not come in on record by early next week we will apply
to the courts to dispose of the vessel by way of a sale to
recover the crew wages. The situation will not be allowed to
drag unnecessarily.
“
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