The NewLead Holdings-owned bitumen tanker that has been stranded 68 days in Baltimore Harbor left layberth yesterday after being re-provisioned and receiving donations from concerned local citizens.
During the layberth, six of the eighteen seafarers aboard the ship, including one seafarer that has been on the ship for 15 months, were able to leave and are now headed home.
But the remaining crew members aboard the 5,900-dwt Newlead Granadino (built 2009), which has been idled due to a broken mainshaft, are doing well, according to Barbara Shipley, an inspector with the International Transport Workers Federation.
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