George and Stathis Gourdomichalis have scored a victory in one battle in the worldwide legal war over an abandoned bulker that they once owned.

US District Judge Michael Mosman granted summary judgment requested by the brothers' Blue Wall Shipping, ending the case in Portland, Oregon, over the now-scrapped 73,500-dwt Adamastos (built 1995).

The company had been resisting charterer Pacific Gulf Shipping Co's efforts in federal court to enforce a $22.6m