A US court has ruled in favour of an affiliate of Dubai shipowner Arka Global Marine Services in a dispute over unpaid bunker fuel.
US District Judge Raymond Jackson ruled Sing Fuels did not have a lien against Arka's 79,410-dwt Lila Shanghai (built 2011). That is because he found the Singapore company did not deal directly with Medmar, the now-shuttered Greek bulker operator that had the bulker on charter when the fuel supplier delivered bunkers to the vessel.
