Dutch reefer owner Seatrade has succeeded in winning a retrial in its long-running legal battle over vessel demolitions in South East Asia.
The Hague Court of Appeal has quashed all guilty verdicts handed down in a criminal hearing at Rotterdam District Court in 2018.
The landmark test case arose from the 2012 sale of four Spring-class reefers for recycling that prosecutors alleged violated the European Waste Shipment Regulation (EWSR).
