A key US appeals court is teed up to rule on an issue at the heart of dozens of lawsuits in the OW Bunker fallout: whether the companies that supplied fuel for orders made through the collapsed Danish company have a maritime claim empowering them to arrest ships in the federal courts.
And while the three-judge panel of the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans voiced scepticism of the positions of both sides of the argument, they appeared open to overturning a lower court’s decision rejecting the physical supplier lien.
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