A Singaporean company has turned to US courts for security in an ongoing $10m dispute with its Chinese charterer over competing bills of lading.

Poseidon Global Shipping filed a lawsuit against Aris Chartering on 6 August in the US federal court for the Central District of California seeking to attach its property at a local bank.

Poseidon Global is the despondent owner of the Hong Kong-flagged, 50,209-dwt bulker Vicjour Ace (built 2001), which it...