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Great Offshore Limited (GOL Offshore) is an Indian offshore oilfield services company. It is based in
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. The company's operations date back to 1983, although it has only been trading under its current name since 2006. The company has come under criticism in 2016 for not paying the crews of two of its
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ships: ''Malaviya Seven'' and ''Malaviya Twenty.'' The ships were detained in
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and
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respectively. These cases have been highlighted in the UK parliament. The
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has been working with the
International Transport Workers' Federation The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership ...
(ITF) as the non-payment of the crew members contravenes both the Maritime Labour Convention and UK
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. In September 2017 a court allowed the sale of the ship ''Malaviya Seven'', and owner GOL Offshore was reported to be in liquidation. In August 2018 Captain Rastogi and the last four crew of ''Malaviya Twenty'' won a high court case, helped by the
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union and the ITF, with the Admiralty marshal agreeing that the ship could be sold to pay the port and crew. GOL Offshore Ltd. was a publicly traded company on BSE (Scrip Code: 532786), however from July 19, 2017 it is suspended from trading.


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* Companies based in Mumbai Oilfield services companies Engineering companies of India Indian companies established in 1983 1983 establishments in Maharashtra {{India-company-stub