The claim, which is linked to the 70,300-dwtSamsun Ambition(built 1986), is at the core of a complaint the South Koreanoperator has filed against the Miami-based fuel provider in the US DistrictCourt for the Southern District of Florida.

KLC claims the panamax suffered a seriesof breakdowns between 30 March and 8 April 2008 after loading 650 metric tonnesof fuel that it purchased in Balboa, Panama from Chemoil, which served asdefendant’s agent in the region at the time in question.

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