MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has failed in its legal bid in the UK to limit its $200m liability to a shipowner following an explosion on the 6,732-teu container ship MSC Flaminia (built 2001) that left three people dead in 2012.
The Swiss liner operator was the time charterer of the MSC Flaminia when it was badly damaged in an explosion and fire in one of its cargo holds mid-Atlantic during a voyage from Charleston, South Carolina, to Antwerp, Belgium.
