Tsuneishi Shipbuilding is defiant over a lawsuit filed by a US liquidator on behalf of bulker operator Global Maritime Investments (GMI), describing the legal action as meritless.

The statement by the Japanese shipbuilding group comes weeks after TradeWinds reported that Charles Berk, the trustee winding up several GMI entities in a federal court in New York, had filed a lawsuit seeking to claw back $13.3m