Great Offshore Limited

Great Offshore Limited (GOL Offshore) is an Indian offshore oilfield services company.[1] It is based in Mumbai. The company's operations date back to 1983, although it has only been trading under its current name since 2006.[1][2]

The company has come under criticism in 2016 for not paying the crews of two of its platform supply vessel ships: Malaviya Seven[3][4] and Malaviya Twenty.[5][6] The ships were detained in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth respectively.[6][7] These cases have been highlighted in the UK parliament.[8]

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been working with the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) as the non-payment of the crew members contravenes both the Maritime Labour Convention and UK Modern Slavery Act 2015.[9]

In September 2017 a court allowed the sale of the ship Malaviya Seven, and owner GOL Offshore was reported to be in liquidation.[10]

In August 2018 Captain Rastogi and the last four crew of Malaviya Twenty won a high court case, helped by the Nautilus International union and the ITF, with the Admiralty marshal agreeing that the ship could be sold to pay the port and crew.[11][12]

GOL Offshore Ltd. was a publicly traded company on BSE (Scrip Code: 532786), however from July 19, 2017, it is suspended from trading.

References

  1. ^ a b "GOL: About us". Great Offshore Limited. Great Offshore Limited. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  2. ^ "GOL: History milestones". Great Offshore Limited. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  3. ^ "GOL: Malaviya Seven". Great Offshore Limited. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  4. ^ "MALAVIYA SEVEN". Marine Traffic. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  5. ^ "GOL: Malaviya Twenty". Great Offshore Limited. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  6. ^ a b "'Malaviya Seven' case outrageous, RMT rep. says". Offshore Energy Today. 7 October 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  7. ^ Toynbee, Polly (30 August 2016). "How Britain sank its shipping industry by waiving the rules". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  8. ^ "Early day motion 489: CREW OF THE MALAVIYA SEVEN AND GOL OFFSHORE". UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  9. ^ "ITF: Malaviya Seven Detained Again in UK". World Maritime News. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Malaviya Seven: Court allows sale of boat detained over unpaid wages". BBC News. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  11. ^ Toynbee, Polly (4 September 2018). "One marooned ship exposes the Brexiteers' phoney claims". the Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  12. ^ "Stranded sailor can finally return home". BBC News. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018 – via www.bbc.co.uk.


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