Citgo has filed an appeal to overturn a $120m court victory for Tsakos Shipping & Trading and the US government in the Athos I spill.
The Venezuelan refiner’s Citgo Asphalt Refining Co (Carco) filed the challenge with the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
The appeal follows a decision by US District Judge Joel Slomsky, of the lower federal court in the same city, ordering Citgo to pay $71.5m
