The UK Admiralty Court has limited Evergreen's liability to $9.5m for a collision between one of its boxships and a suezmax tanker.
Evergreen's 7,024-teu Ever Smart (built 2006) "drove into and almost through" the 153,000-dwt Alexandra 1 (built 1997), owned by Nautical Challenge, off Jebel Ali in February 2015, judge Andrew Baker said.
Ever Smart suffered $4m in damage. The laden suezmax, whose bow was split to beneath the waterline and whose condensate cargo had to be transhipped before a repair could be carried out, registered damages of more than $32m.
