An offshore supply vessel which was recently detained in Aberdeen harbour over unpaid wages is in hot water again – this time in the Netherlands.
Documents shared with Energy Voice show the Malta-registered Ben Nevis, owned by Indian firm Global Offshore Services (GOS), was detained in the Port of Rotterdam this week.
It is understood 15 crew members were owed wages for October and November, worth around $125,000, when inspectors at the harbour made the decision.
The vessel set sail from Aberdeen on October 30 after the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency released it from a detention lasting several weeks.
At the time, the MCA said GOS had paid its crew and repatriated those who needed to go home.
In mid-October the RMT trade union condemned GOS’s alleged attempts to leave the port without resolving Maritime Labour Convention offences against the crew, amid claims some had gone months without pay.
GOS managing director Bert Seevinck insisted the firm had paid “all crew on the vessel” and had settled “the majority” of salaries owed to signed-off crew.
A spokesman for the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) said last night that Ben Nevis’ latest detention showed breaches were continuing on the vessel.
He said ITF remained committed to stamping out “substandard shipping or exploitation of seafarers”.
GOS has been contacted for comment.