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In September, Hurtigruten rents two boats for the recording of “Mission Impossible.” The ships house a total of almost 400 film workers from Norway and abroad.
A ship, “MS Fridtjof Nansen”, is now at the quay of the town of Hellesylt in the municipality of Stranda.
– The ship arrived on Friday night and now they are working hard to get it ready for recording. There has been a lot of activity in the area, both in the air and on the ground, local newspaper Hellesylt.info editor Fredrik Stadheim tells Dagbladet.
He says the film crew skydives from a helicopter near the well-known Helsetkopen base jump mountain. From what Dagbladet knows, Tom Cruise will perform some very dramatic stunts at Møre og Romsdal in the coming weeks.
According to Hellesylt.info, the municipality of Stranda has applied for a liquor license on the ship in the period from August 29 to September 25.
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– A clean hotel
The fact that the cruise ship is on the dock in operation as accommodation for almost a month makes the Norwegian Seafarers’ Association react strongly.
– We have understood it in such a way that the ship during that period will not be in ordinary operation like a ship, but will be anchored in a Norwegian port in western Norway like a clean hotel, writes lawyer Terje Hernes Pettersen from the Association of Norwegian sailors in a statement.
– We are aware that it is planned to man the ship with a significant amount of cheap foreign labor from third countries to well below Norwegian conditions. This is a common social dumping in Norwegian ports, she writes.
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It was the Sunnmøringen newspaper that first mentioned the warning.
Hernes Pettersen reports in the statement that the association has sent a notice to the Norwegian Maritime Directorate. To Dagbladet, he tells him that he was rejected and that management has evaluated the hotel business within the law.
– The decision is completely incomprehensible. No one has done this before precisely because it has been believed to be unlawful, says Hernes Pettersen and continues:
– The decision is opened in practice for Viking Cruises and Hurtigruten to anchor in Aker Brygge as a hotel and, at the same time, pay employees only 29 crowns per hour. I recently spoke with our collective bargaining department. They’ve figured it’s the lowest hourly wage on that ship, he tells Dagbladet.
Anne Marit Bjørnflaten, Hurtigruten’s director of public relations, tells Dagbladet that they strongly disassociate themselves from allegations by the Norwegian Seafarers Association that Hurtigruten is engaging in social dumping.
– We are well above the industry standard on our expedition trips. It is also not the case that “MS Fridtjof Nansen” was chosen to save costs, but because the ship is best suited for this task, especially for infection control reasons, he writes in an email.
I want the ship to be erased
According to the Norwegian Seafarers Association, it was not until 2015 that cruise ships registered in the so-called NIS registry (Viking Cruises and Hurtigruten, editor’s note) were allowed to carry out such activities in a Norwegian port.
The lawyer writes that the ban was enshrined in law because the NIS registry was opened to hire crews on international terms. Ships that are registered in the Norwegian NOR register, however, use Norwegian working conditions.
– The ban will prevent shipping companies from using NIS vessels in competition with NOR vessels in Norwegian waters and thus will not jeopardize Norwegian jobs and prevent social dumping, writes Hernes Pettersen.
In the notification, the association has asked the Norwegian Maritime Authority to remove the ship from the NIS register.
Hurtigruten believes that the use of the ship is within the rules for NIS ships.
– This is something that the Norwegian Maritime Directorate has already confirmed. Despite this, we have decided to invite the unions to a dialogue on crew remuneration, and we have already said that we will give the crew salaries under Norwegian conditions. It is therefore difficult to understand why the Norwegian Seamen’s Association makes such baseless accusations, writes public relations director Anne Marit Bjørnflaten to Dagbladet.
The “Orient Express” on the set of Tom Cruise
There are exceptions
Terje Hernes Pettersen says the law was updated with an exemption provision five years ago, but claims that this still does not apply to “MS Fridtjof Nansen” when the ship is at the Hellesylt dock.
– In 2015, this ban was slightly relaxed in the sense that NIS-registered cruise ships could call at Norwegian ports, provided they called at at least two foreign ports during the trip, the lawyer writes.
– The planned rental of a NIS passenger ship for hotel purposes clearly violates Norwegian NIS law because “Fridtjof Nansen” is not a cruise ship, but a hotel rental, and no foreign port is called during the period, Hernes continues Pettersen.
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– No violation of the law
The Norwegian Maritime Authority confirms that it is familiar with the notification to the Norwegian Seafarers Association.
– We can confirm the warning and we responded to you last week. We do not take a position on this with social dumping, but our lawyers have evaluated the investigation against NIS regulations, says the communications director of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate, Dag Inge Aarhus, to Dagbladet.
They have conducted a legal assessment and concluded that “MS Fridtjof Nansen” does not violate the rules.
– It is a passenger ship that is approved for guests. Our assessment is that the ship can dock with passengers without breaking the rules. As long as they are at the Hellesylt dock and not moving between Norwegian ports, this is considered correct, says Aarhus.
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