The multi-jurisdiction legal fight over the 2012 blast that rocked the MSC Flaminia has more legs to it after more than a decade as new manoeuvres keep it alive in the US and as a UK appeals court prepares to rule.
Stolt Tank Containers and Deltech, the chemical maker whose cargo has been blamed for sparking the explosion, have asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision leaving them on the hook for the casualty.