Norwegian offshore operator Farstad Supply has won a second UK supreme court ruling in a hard fought legal battle over a fire that killed one man and caused serious damage to a vessel almost nine years ago.

Farstad is claiming £2.7m ($4.4m) compensation for negligence by Enviroco, a company employed to clean the oil tanks of the 4,680-dwt Far Service (built 1995) with the dispute already the subject of multiple rulings by the Scottish and English courts.

Far Service
The latest was a unanimous ruling by five supreme court judges that Enviroco was not an associated company of Asco, formerly the Aberdeen Service Co which chartered the Far Service for five years with an option to extend the contract for another five...