A Yangzijiang Shipping bulker has been banned from entering an Australian port for a year after it was found that the crew had been underpaid.
The discovery aboard the 93,200-dwt TW Hamburg (built 2012) was made during an inspection in Gladstone on Friday.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) boarded the ship after receiving information that seafarers on board had “expired employment agreements and had requested repatriation”.
