A SHIP originally arrested by authorities here due to the maltreatment of its crew is now bound for Gaza to bring medical, educational and construction supplies to the country.

SHIPS embarking from Peel Ports in Dublin could find it difficult to unload their cargo after a delegation of international marine unions vowed to mount an international campaign of action against the company.

IRISH Examiner journalist Stephen Rogers has been commended by the International Transport Federation (ITF) for his continuing efforts to highlight the exploitation of foreign sea workers in Irish waters.

AN Irish transport inspector has predicted a Latvian shipping company could be forced out of business after one of its ships, which he has been chasing in Irish ports for unpaid wages for almost two years, was arrested in Holland along with another of its vessels.

ABOUT 600 protesters blocked operations in and around Dublin Port for three hours yesterday in an escalation of the eight-week long protest at Marine Terminals (MTL).

ABOUT 600 protesters blocked operations in and around Dublin Port for three hours yesterday in an escalation of the eight-week long protest at Marine Terminals (MTL).

TRADE unions representing workers at Peel Ports operations across Europe are gearing up for a co-ordinated protest against the company’s treatment of its staff in Dublin Port.

Three crew members on the Jeanie Johnston famine ship have been paid €16,000 in wage arrears.

HUNDREDS of illegal Filipino fishermen may be set to flood into the Irish industry as Britain plans to deport huge numbers believed to be working there illegally.

A CONTROVERSIAL Latvian vessel was back in Cork Harbour at the weekend just over a month after authorities held for not paying its crew several months of owed wages.

THE State was criticised yesterday for allowing four Pakistani crewmen to remain abandoned on board a trawler which has been detained at a mooring off a Cork port for almost two months.

THE International Transport Federation is to seek a High Court order forcing a Latvian shipping company to pay thousands of euro in outstanding unpaid wages to its crew, as well as berthing costs which it is has been forced to pay to authorities in Cork.

The International Transport Federation is to seek the detention of a Latvian-registered freighter at the High Court in Dublin today.

CREW onboard a Latvian ship tied up in Cork harbour and owed €80,000 in unpaid wages were “reassured” by a visit from Ukrainian Consul Yuriy Zereshynskyi.

The striking crew of a Latvian registered ship fear that the owners of the vessel may be about to abandon the ship and its workers in Cork.

The crew of a Latvian-owned ship is refusing the sail the vessel out of Cork as part of a dispute with their employers regarding pay.

THE International Transport Federation (ITF) was last night seeking the arrest of a Latvian ship in a Cork port for the second time in less than a year as it emerged the crew were owed in excess of $100,000 (€80,000).

FOLLOWING revelations that dozens of Filipinos in the country without visas are providing illegal cheap labour to fishing boat owners, the International Transport Federation (ITF) is to meet with fishing officials to examine levels of exploitation of migrant labour in the industry.

ACE ESMERIA and Rene Mesana accepted when they came to the British Isles that they would be earning just €435 per month.

THE country’s largest trade union has attacked the Government for rescuing banks from their current crisis while pension schemes are left to crumble.

THE International Transport Federation (ITF) is to demand access to a Cyprus- registered ship due to land at the Aughinish Alumina plant in Foynes.

THE International Transport Federation is to demand access to a Cyprus-registered ship due to land at the Aughinish Alumina plant in Foynes.

A DUBLIN man who has recouped more than $1m (€645,000) in owed wages for international seafarers docking in Ireland has received international acclaim for his efforts.

An investigation was launched today after a number of Filipino seafarers were discovered living in appalling conditions on a boat in Co Cork.

THE International Transport Federation will this morning begin to repatriate four of the nine crew of a Latvian vessel currently detained in Cork Harbour.

THE International Transport Federation will attempt on Monday to secure $125,000 (€80,000) in owed wages and penalties from the owners of a Latvian ship currently detained in Cork harbour.

A LATVIAN ship with nine crew was detained yesterday in Cork harbour after it was alleged the crew had not been paid since January. Those who had been paid were believed to have been given as little as €1 per hour.

THE International Transport Federation (ITF) has called on the Government to appoint more inspectors to tackle “endemic” underpayment of foreigners crewing vessels operating in Irish waters.

The nine Romanian seafarers who left the Celtic Star vessel on Christmas Eve because of unpaid wages have flown home to Bucharest.

Nine Romanian crewmembers of the Celtic Star, docked at Dublin port are to be paid arrears of up to €38,000.

The captain of the Celtic Star ship has admitted that the company owes its staff €25,000 in arrears.

A dispute has broken out on board the Celtic Star vessel at Dublin Port.

A POLISH crew member of a Norfolk Lines ferry yesterday died from severe leg injuries sustained last week when a mooring line smashed into him in Dublin Port last week.

A SHIP stranded along with its crew in New Ross for almost two months was yesterday sold at auction, meaning the crew can finally be paid the thousands of euro withheld from them by its owners.

The Russian crew of a ship that has been stranded in Co Wexford since May are due to fly home today.

IRISH Ferry sailings into French harbours may be blocked by French trade union officials, affecting the holidays of thousands of Irish passengers.

A BELIZE-registered vessel was arrested in New Ross yesterday, when it emerged it was leaking seawater and the Russian crew were only being paid half what they are entitled to.

A container vessel, registered in the tiny central American state of Belize, has been detained in New Ross, Co Wexford.

Talks between the owners of Fortuna I, the Latvian vessel stranded in Ireland since March and representatives of the crew broke down today.

AN Irish shipping company has been accused of paying its crew members as little as €2.63 per hour for working 365 hours per month in what trade unions fear is a repeat of the Irish Ferries crisis of 2005.

THE International Transport Federation will next week name and shame shipping companies that are underpaying or exploiting their sea-going employees.

A Latvian ship stranded off the Louth coast in a dispute over safety will return to land late tonight, the International Transport Federation (ITF) has confirmed.

The incoming Government is being asked to agree new procedures to prevent the exploitation of seafarers in Irish waters.

A damaged chemical ship, stranded off the south west coast since Wednesday, has been towed in to Cork Harbour.