An Eastern Pacific Shipping product tanker spent most of this month sitting in India as the unwitting victim of a legal war between a Mauritian shipowner and a trading company.
The departure of the 47,900-dwt Pacific Diamond (built 2010) from the port of Mangalore, south-western India, in the early hours of Monday morning appears to have marked the end of the Indian portion of a legal battle between tanker owner Betamax and Mauritius' State Trading Corp (STC) that has been waged in several locations around the Indian Ocean rim.
