Swire Shipping is fighting Hong Kong tycoon Charles Brown and his Lake House family office over a container ship sale that went wrong.
But recent legal battles over the 1,304-teu Takutai Chief (ex-Lihir Chief, built 2010) are taking place in the shadows, while the parties fight over the confidentiality of documents related to the ship’s financing and purchase.
As TradeWinds reported, Swire placed the ship under the New Zealand flag last September for its Pacifica Shipping operation there.
