An affiliate of ship operator Suisse-Atlantique Navigation Maritime has filed a Delaware lawsuit against Gavilon on claims that the US agricultural company should be held liable for a fight in China over an allegedly discoloured grain cargo.

Oceana Shipping, the registered owner of Suisse-Atlantique’s 73,000-dwt bulker Nyon (built 1999), alleges that it was drawn into the Chinese legal proceedings that threatened to arrest the panamax.

Oceana’s