Judge Won’t Dismiss Bid To Enforce $200M Award For Fatal Explosion On Vessel

Mealey's (September 8, 2022, 1:48 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana federal judge on Sept. 7 denied a Swiss charterer’s motion to dismiss a German shipowner’s petition to enforce an arbitral award worth more than $200 million against the Swiss company, which had chartered a vessel that was involved in a fatal explosion while crossing the Atlantic Ocean, after rejecting the charterer’s jurisdictional defense....