When a flood of charter claims against Allied Maritime of Greece first began to unfold many industry insiders were shocked given what some described as the “impeccable” track record and reputation of patriarch Dimitris Marinis.

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Aside from a brief hiccup in 2005 it was rare to find the bulker operator named as a defendant in US legal cases but all that changed in February when a handful