Below you will find recent case-law on issues involving ship arrests:
“WISCONSIN”; DISTRICT COURT OF CURAÇAO; 01-14-2021; ECLI:NL:OGEAC:2021:2
Application by a law firm for an attachment of the seagoing vessel 'Wisconsin', sailing under the flag of Togo and located in Curaçao, belonging to IMS, in order to recover fees for legal assistance to the crew of the vessel that has not been paid for by IMS. Read more...
“KOHL I“; COURT OF APPEAL THE HAGUE; 10-06-2020; ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2020:1964
Attachment of vessel 'Kohl I', sailing under the Panamanian flag and time-chartered to Navigazione, belonging to Regano, at the request of CMF in order to recover bunker supplies to the vessel which Navigazione had failed to pay for. Read more...
“KOHL I” (2); DISTRICT COURT OF ROTTERDAM; 01-24-2020; ECLI:NL:RBROT:2020:13078
Attachment of vessel 'Kohl I', sailing under Panamanian flag and time-chartered to Navigazione, belonging to Regano at the request of CMF in order to recover bunker supplies to the vessel which Navigazione had left unpaid. The vessel is encumbered by a mortgage. By order of 20 January 2020, the judge in preliminary relief proceedings lifted the (first) attachment that had been levied on 5 January 2020. On 20 January 2020 leave to arrest the vessel is granted on an almost identical petition. On the same day, the ship was again arrested. Regano claims the lifting of that (second) attachment.
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