Foreign-Registered Ship: British and Government Guidance

foreign-registered ship: The Malaviya Twenty is a silent symbol of the sinking British shipping industry, according to The Guardian. Why was an Indian ship employed to ply to and from British ports, servicing the British oil industry and British wind farms Because a foreign-registered ship could pay its crew a third of a British crew's wages or less despite government guidance, the UK minimum wage isn't currently enforceable. Returning last week, Great Yarmouth had become a near-prison for its Indian captain and crew, waiting for their back pay that never came. With the oil industry downturn, the Malaviya's owners stopped paying the crew and there the ship stayed, arrested by maritime authorities. UK manufacturing growth hits 25-month low amid Brexit fears Read more Captain Rastogi and his last four crew finally won a high court case, helped by the Nautilus International union and the International Transport Workers' Federation. But soon the crew will be free. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.