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The Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has affirmed an Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) decision to ban the Panama-flagged bulk carrier Fortune Genius from entering or using an Australian port for a period of twelve months.<\/strong><\/p>\n AMSA surveyors boarded the 2002-built vessel in Gladstone on 5 September 2019 after receiving a complaint via the International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation (ITF).<\/p>\n The vessel was subsequently detained after AMSA\u2019s investigation revealed the crew had been deliberately underpaid by the operator for consecutive months totalling approximately $100,000, and used two sets of wage accounts in order to deceive authorities.<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n In his decision, AAT Deputy President James Constance<\/strong> agreed with AMSA that such contraventions of the Maritime Labour Convention are extremely serious and that banning the vessel<\/a> was appropriate in the circumstances. <\/p>\n AMSA\u2019s General Manager of Operations Allan Schwartz<\/strong> said that AMSA would never tolerate ships that underpay their crew in Australia. <\/p>\n \u201cThe international conventions that protect seafarers\u2019 rights are very clear,\u201d<\/em> Schwartz pointed out. <\/p>\n \u201cThe decision by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal supports AMSA\u2019s approach to ban ships that underpay crew for extended periods of time.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n \u201cShips visiting Australian ports are on notice that if we find deliberate and repeated underpaying of crew and attempts to deceive authorities, they can expect penalties,”<\/em> he added. <\/p>\n The post AAT affirms AMSA decision to ban bulker from Australian ports<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has affirmed an Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) decision to ban the Panama-flagged bulk carrier Fortune Genius from entering or using an Australian port for a period of twelve months. AMSA surveyors boarded the 2002-built vessel in Gladstone on 5 September 2019 after receiving a complaint via the International …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7804,7805,571,431,1736,932,1117,61],"class_list":["post-11874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-aat","tag-affirms","tag-amsa","tag-australian","tag-ban","tag-bulker","tag-decision","tag-ports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tBulker Detained in Australia Over Unpaid Crew Wages
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