Agder faces US$2m claim over reefer fruit cargo

MAROC Fruit Board of Morocco has secured an arrest warrant against the former Eastwind Maritime reefership Vinson in Massachusetts, seeking to recover US$2m in damages allegedly caused by the deterioration in transit of a fruit cargo entrusted to the ship.

Knut Bratteberg, managing director of the ship’s owner Agder Ocean Shipping, a Norwegian limited partnership, told Lloyd’s List that extremely heavy weather while crossing the Atlantic with heavy delays led to the damage.
The ship had still not been arrested...

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