The company paid off the debts to the seafarers

The company-shipowner of the vessel "Winner", which was previously detained in the port of Nakhodka for non-payment of wages to Russian crew members, paid off the debts. The FETO SUR  Chairman Nikolay Sukhanov confirmed this information.As previously reported, the  FETO SUR Inspectors together with  together with the Assistant of the Nakhodka Transport Prosecutor's Office and Port State Control Officers visited the MV "Winner" as part of the Concentrated Inspection Campaign of the Paris and Tokyo Memorandums of Understanding on Port State Control.

The FETO SUR Inspectors checked insurance certificates and asked the crew about the amount of insurance payout the specified in the employment agreement next of kin should receive in case of a fatal accident with a seafarer on voyage. It turned out that the crew members did not know the insurance amount, since it was not indicated in their employment agreements or its Appendixes. 

Having completed the inspection of the vessel, the PSC Officers decided to detain the vessel at the port of Nakhodka until the wage debts were fully paid off and the deficiencies regarding the technical condition of the vessel were addressed.

As soon as the next day all the debts were paid off, and the technical deficiencies identified during were in the process of addressing. The M/V "Winner" has already left for the roadstead.

In the photo: The FETO SUR Inspectors, the Assistant of the Nakhodka Transport Prosecutor's Office and the Port State Control Officers talk to the crew.