The vessel, Bulk Brasil, was detained by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) for serious breaches of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC).
According the MUA the vessel’s stores were “severely lacking” and none of the crew had been paid for four months.
The Union said the 82,000 dwt, Panama-flagged vessel, operated and managed by Keymax Maritime from Japan had been found to have deficiencies in 12 ports worldwide.
“Ironically, the Keymax website claims that the company ‘promises to deliver the finest in crewing services’; am I wrong in thinking that the ‘finest in crewing services’ to mean that the crew will be fed and paid,” commented International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) National Co-ordinator Dean Summers.
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