A US judge has denied a request by Ukraine’s Vista Shipping to throw out Glory Wealth Shipping’s seizure of a combination carrier (OBO) in the continued battle over the debts of collapsed Industrial Carriers Inc (ICI)

Vista affiliate Freight Bulk Pte (FBP) had been challenging the $46.4m lawsuit, one of two that has ensnared the 169,000-dwt Cape Viewer (built 1992), because it aims to enforce a judgment in New York’s federal court that the Odessa-based owner’s lawyers say was requested too late.

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