Two Eastern Mediterranean Maritime-connected companies are looking to the courts to keep it out of arbitration with bunker provider Integr8 Fuels.

Prose Shipping and Poles Shipping, the one-time and current registered owners of the 50,341-dwt bulker Poles (built 2002), argued in the US federal court for the Southern District of New York that they were never party to a 2018 fuel sale while the ship was on a bareboat charter to a now-bankrupt company.