M.V. Accord

Soon after it entered the territorial jurisdiction of Bangladesh the vessel lost both of its anchors. Pirates or local terrorist tried to dismantle the vessel. At one stage the ship was arrested by an order of the Admiralty Court. The vessel was sold on auction.

 Master, shipping agent, all the crews of the vessel, cargo owner, foreign supplier, local people and shipyard owner filed 31 suits against the vessel. We are representing the owner of the vessel since 2000. We defended most of them successfully. Only 10 suits are pending in the High Court Division and one in the Appellate Division.

One of the suits was decreed against the vessel before we were engaged in the matter. One of the other suits, filed by the cargo owner, was decreed because owner did not defend it since they had a valid claim. Except two all other suits filed by the crews were dismissed for default. However 10 of them has been restored by the court upon applications by some of the crews.

Some local people conspired to gain unlawfully from a foreign ship however after a long battle we won against all of them.

At lease two of the decisions involving this vessel has been report in different Law Journals of Bangladesh.

M.V. Ocean Hope & M.V. Ocean Heart

 One of the vessels ran away from the territorial jurisdiction of Bangladesh after short landing without informing the concerned authority. Cargo owner came to know about the sister vessel and we applied for an order of arrest of the sister vessel and successfully arrested a sister vessel. Owner has released the vessel by furnishing bank guarantee as security. It is now in trial stage.

 M.V. Jebel-E-Rahmat

We defended on behalf of the owner of the vessel against the claim of the insurance company and the cargo owner.  The vessel was arrested on an application filed by the cargo owner and the insurer. This matter was settled out of court amicably. The vessel has been released.

Subsequently the same vessel was arrested by Legal Steps under a different cause of action which was also amicably settled between the parties. This time we were working for another cargo owner and on a different ground.

We are defending the cargo owner praying compensation for the delay in delivering the cargo. Initially the vessel was arrested as security. However now it has been released upon receiving Bank Guarantee as security.