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Madras HC orders arrest of Palau-flagged ship

CHENNAI: The Madras high court has ordered the arrest of a Palau-flagged ship, anchored at V O Chidambaranar Port at Turicorin, for non-payment of dues running to more than Rs 78 lakh.Palau is an archipelago of over 500 islands, part of the Micronesia region in the western Pacific Ocean.The ship - TB Parasea One - was carrying construction materials from Singapore to Male, and the vessel had serious mechanical troubles including water seepage through a hole in the ballast. It had to be sent for repairs by Mangalore-based Roy Lexim which had chartered the vessel for the trip.Owing to repair works and the inability of the vessel to carry the originally contracted quantity of 5,000 tons of materials, the company through S Senthil of Vadapalani in Chennai had moved the court for recovery of more than Rs 78 lakh. The money was to have been paid by the Dubai-based Paradigm Seastar Ltd, he said.On Monday, Justice P Velmurugan, passing orders on a civil suit filed by Roy Lexim, said the ship shall be arrested in the territorial waters of India at VOC Port in Tuticorin.The vessel shall be arrested with her hull, tackle, engines, bunker, machinery, paraphernalia and all her appurtenant in as is where is condition, till March 13, the judge said.. https://www.nyoooz.com/news/chennai/746049/madras-hc-orders-arrest-of-palauflagged-ship