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Offshore Vessels Detained In Aberdeen Over Unpaid Wages

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August 30, 2016

The Malaviya Twenty supply ship, stuck in Great Yarmouth. Photograph: Guardian

by Polly Toynbee (TheGuardian) M/V Malaviya Twenty has been moored in Great Yarmouth docks since December. To look at, it’s no rustbucket, kept in good shape by its Indian crew – but when I visited a week ago, they hadn’t been paid by the ship’s owners for all those months. This is a story about the fate of shipping in Britain – an often forgotten industry, though we depend on it for over 90% of our imports and exports, and for most of what is stacked on supermarket shelves.

Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd

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