A NewLead Holdings bulker arrested off the coast of Singapore has a new crew and is in limited operations with new insurers, despite the ship's safety management certificate being revoked after the vessel's original abandonment.

Sources familiar with the situation say 13 new seafarers have been deployed to the 75,966-dwt Newlead Victoria (built 2002) after the original crew abandoned the ship last week in a long simmering dispute over back wages.

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