Denmark's DFDS has rubbished claims it is paying crew at 'poverty' levels on one of its ro-paxes.

The RMT union had staged a demonstration against what it said was a rate of £1.64 ($2.04) per hour for seafarers on the 11,500-gt Finlandia Seaways (built 2000), which operates between Scotland and Belgium.

It said Lithuanian crew were being exploited, The National daily reported.

But