- ITV Report
Clock ticking on Fowey ship arrest
A ship detained at Fowey for safety and accommodation failings will face arrest at 5pm today unless the owners pay the crew the wages they owe them.
The Panamanian-flagged, Turkish-owned vessel Munzur was detained by the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency for multiple failings.
The International Transport Workers’ Federation is assisting the crew, most of whom are desperate to leave the unhygienic and filthy vessel and return home.
There are 12 crew members, from five different nationalities.
They report that all except one of them were being paid below the minimum, with one earning less than £240 per month. At least five of them haven’t been paid since they joined the vessel early this year.
The crew is owed over nearly £21,000. Nine of them no longer want to sail on the vessel and have asked the ITF to legally challenge the company on their behalf and secure the owed wages and repatriation costs.