Key staff targeted in the lawsuits — except for Daniel Su — are employed by a company known as Columbus Maritime, created in the Marshall Islands in July 2011.

Freight Bulk Pte, for example, was set up in Singapore to buy the 169,381-dwt Cape Viewer (built 1992) and 169,146-dwt Cape Climber (built 1991), another vessel formerly owned by John Fredriksen’s Frontline.

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