Even though Andrade and the other Filipino men traveled to Singapore at different times over a several-year period, virtually all of them described in nearly identical terms the apartment above Step Up Marine’s office. Jolovan Wham, executive director of the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics, an advocacy group in Singapore, visited this apartment in 2014 while trying to help a seafarer trapped there. He told me the men in the apartment were “packed like sardines.”
