Vessel returns to harbour a month after being detained for unpaid wages

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.

When the Defender left Cork at the end of April, the bulk of the €80,000 owed to its Russian and Ukrainian crew still had not been paid by owners Forestry Shipping in Riga.

It was the second time in a year that the company had been detected in Cork Harbour as having failed to properly pay its crew.