[Case Brief] On December 5, 2012, Shi and other 19 crew members filed a claim in our Court for payment of unpaid wages against their ship owner. They request the defendant, Hainan ShangDao Shipping Co., Ltd., to pay wages RMB 525,999 Yuan to the crew members. After acceptance of the case, our Court initiated a green channel for crew members to ask for unpaid wages; applied for them of property preservation without charge of counter guarantee fees. In addition, the claimants may delay the payment of the preservation application fees. With the help of Haikou Maritime Court, we froze bank deposits RMB 600,000 Yuan of the defendant. Since the Company discontinued its operations, the legal representative was missing. The litigation documents were unable to be served. In this case, the trial came to a deadlock. Through multiple investigations, afterwards, we contacted with the lawyer entrusted by the Company to handle a case that being trialed at Guangzhou Maritime Court to persuade him/her to contact with the Company for the purpose of obtaining the authorization relating to the series of cases. We successfully solved the problem of documents serving and avoided original more than two months of serving period. The series of cases were settled finally in mode of mediation. The crew members concerned applied for the rights of creditors in a maritime court in other province against the ship under arrest and auction.

[Significances] The wage-based cases filed by 19 crew members were successfully solved, forming a typical case of our Court in opening up the green channel for crew members to ask for unpaid wages and in judging the case together with our brother court. Through the trial execution work of maritime court, it, on the one hand, effectively protested the interests of crew members who were in need of judicial aid; and on the other hand, continued and strengthened the good tradition of solving people's troubles together with our brother court civilly and judicially. In this case, by virtue of the litigation resources of the two maritime courts in Haikou and Guangzhou, our Court achieved efficient property preservation; grasped the opportunity to contact with the defendant; contributed to the participation of the defendant's lawyer in case trial and mediation; and achieved obvious effect relating to the improvement of trial efficiency, the reduction of crew members' litigation exhaustion, and help crew members to realize lawful rights and interests as soon as possible.