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The ship MS “Fridtjof Nansen” will function for a month as a hotel for the film crew during the filming of the seventh edition of “Mission Impossible”.
The ship is at the Hellesylt dock and the crew will consist mainly of workers who are paid just 29 kroner per hour.
Fellesforbundet and Sjømannsforbundet believe that the ship should be considered a hotel and that those who live there should have a work permit and a residence permit in Norway. Therefore, they have now filed a police report, writes VG.
Lawyer Terje Hernes Pettersen from the Norwegian Seamen’s Association says they have reason to believe that those who live there do not have a residence or work permit, but that the police should investigate.
– We’ll assume they don’t. In general, third country seafarers do not have it when they are on ships that operate internationally, but here the ship is not international. It will only be to the Norwegian port, Pettersen tells NRK.
HURTIGRUTEN: Most of the film crew lives here.
Photo: Alf-Jørgen Tyssing / NRK
Don’t think they follow the NIS rules
The MS “Fridtjof Nansen” is an expedition cruiser that sails under NIS flags and is therefore subject to international rules, unlike ships registered in NOR.
The association has asked the Norwegian Maritime Directorate to remove the ship from NIS to include it in the ordinary register, as this, according to them, is illegal.
The ship will be at the dock in western Norway and then it won’t be able to register with NIS, he says. A NIS ship can also sail in Norwegian waters, but it must have been in two ports before or after. The two unions believe that Hurtigruten is now breaking this rule.
– There are no cruise ships here and they do not call at any foreign port. There are no exceptions to that, Pettersen tells NRK.
DOES NOT FOLLOW NIS RULES: Attorney Terje Hernes Pettersen from the Norwegian Seafarers Association believes that the ship is not following NIS rules and requests that it be removed from this registry.
Photo: Steinar Haugberg
– We have notified the Norwegian Maritime Directorate about it, but they had a different understanding of the regulations, he says.
On Friday, the Norwegian Seafarers Association received a response from the Norwegian Maritime Directorate:
– The Norwegian Maritime Directorate has assessed the case and cannot see that the described use will conflict with the commercial zone restrictions of the NIS Act.
You have sent a letter to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
But the Norwegian Seafarers Association disagrees, so on Tuesday they sent a letter to the Ministry of Trade and Industry to see if the Ministry of Trade and Industry has the same opinion as the Norwegian Maritime Directorate.
– Otherwise, it is requested that the ship be immediately removed from NIS and registered with NOR. Illegal activity is ongoing and therefore we ask that the case be given priority, stated in the letter to which NRK has been given access.
The Norwegian Seafarers Association attributes several negative consequences.
Among other things, if this is the case, other NIS registered ships may also offer a thousand berths, with the ship outperforming hotels on land.
– By the opening of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate for a NIS cruise ship to function as a hotel in any Norwegian port with salaries of up to 29 crowns per hour, it goes without saying that such ships will easily outperform hotels on land competing for it. same guests.
Unfortunately, it appears that these consequences have not been evaluated by management, the letter adds.
HELLESYLT: Hurtigruten Fridtjof Nansen’s ship is at the Hellesylt pier.
Photo: Alf-Jørgen Tyssing / NRK
Hurtigruten: – Unjustified allegations
Hurtigruten says the use of the ship is within the rules for NIS ships, which the Norwegian Maritime Directorate has confirmed.
– The ship operates legally in accordance with the NIS Act and the rules governing salary, working conditions, working time and rest for the crew on board NIS-registered ships, says Government Contact Director Anne Marit Bjørnflaten to NRK in an email.
– The Norwegian Seafarers Association is well aware that there is no “social dumping” on NIS vessels. MS Fridtjof Nansen has also not been chosen to save costs, but because the ship is best suited for this task, mostly for infection control reasons, he writes further.
She says Hurtigruten has asked the Norwegian Seamen’s Association for a dialogue on where the salary level should be, and that Hurtigruten will offer salaries at the Norwegian level.
– It is therefore difficult to understand why the Norwegian Seamen’s Association makes such baseless accusations, he says in the email.
UNBUSED CLAIMS: It’s hard to understand why the Norwegian Seamen’s Association makes such baseless claims, says Anne Marit Bjørnflaten in an email to NRK.
Photo: Sigurdsøn, Bjørn / SCANPIX
