An Indian ship, with its Indian captain, is stranded at a UK port for over a year due to a long-standing legal dispute over payment of dues to the harbour owners, a worker’s union said today as it sought the intervention of the British port authority into the matter. The ship, ‘Malaviya Twenty’, has been held at a port in Great Yarmouth, in the East Anglia region of England, since July 2016 after its Indian owners declared bankruptcy. Most of the original crew has since been repatriated back to India but Captain Nikesh Rastogi and three other crew members have been stuck aboard for nearly 15 months due to a stalemate with the harbour’s owners, Peel Ports. “The captain cannot abandon the ship because it will have consequences on his operating licence. He, along with three other crew, is stuck on board and have been undergoing severe hardship,” said Paul Keenan, inspector with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) who has been involved with the dispute from the start. Keenan says the ship could be sold for around 800,000 pounds, which would be enough to cover port dues of fuelling and docking charges, with sufficient left-over funds to cover the crew’s unpaid wages and costs for the insurance company and their lawyers.
WORLD SHIPPING
04 June 2018 - 08:35
Indian ship crew stranded in UK for more than a year over dues dispute
An Indian ship, with its Indian captain, is stranded at a UK port for over a year due to a long-standing legal dispute over payment of dues to the harbour owners, a worker’s union said today as it sought the intervention of the British port authority into the matter
WORLD SHIPPING
04 June 2018 - 08:35
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