An Oregon judge has ordered a Gourdomichalis brothers-owned bulker seized in a Danish company’s latest attempt to collect in a dispute over a ship that was abandoned in Brazil in 2015.
In Portland federal court this week, Pacific Gulf Shipping secured an attachment of the 52,500-dwt Vigorous (built 2005) after filing a $22.6m lawsuit against several Gourdomichalis companies alleging they fraudulently chartered the Adamastos in 2014, abandoned it when it ran aground the next year and since 2017 have avoided paying out claims won in a British arbitration case.
