Replies to post #33819 on Newlead Holdings Ltd. (fka NEWLF)

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That's terrible, they even SCAMMED their workers:

The Newlead Castellano, one of 50,000 cargo ships that crisscrosses oceans delivering the world’s goods, had stopped in ports in Singapore and New Zealand, sailed the Panama Canal and picked up a shipment of sugar before heading to the U.S. East Coast.

That’s where its journey ended and the months of waiting began for its 15 sailors.

Built in China, owned by a Greek company, flying a Liberian flag, sailing with a crew of Filipino seamen, the 600-foot-long ship was just a few miles from the port of Savannah, Georgia, when the owner, NewLead Holdings, stopped paying the loan on the ship and signing checks for the crew.

For four months while a court case ensued, the vessel sat in coastal waters about six miles from Tybee Island. On board, 15 sailors waited with little to do, no income and no documents to set foot on U.S. soil.

“These are the ones you hurt for. They had no money to fly home and no visas. They were stuck on the ship,” said Father Richard Young, a port chaplain in Savannah at the International Seamen’s House, which provides services to sailors. “In these circumstances, we’re their only link to the outside world.”