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Trans-Tec Asia v M/V “Harmony Container” – US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Alex Kozinski CJ, A Wallace Tashima and M Margaret McKeown Ct JJ) – 11 March 2008

Admiralty jurisdiction – Claim for necessaries – Foreign bunker supplier providing bunkers to foreign-flagged vessel under contract providing that United States law should apply – Whether bunker supplier entitled to maritime lien

(2008) 745 LMLN 4

The defendant, a Malaysian company, owned the vessel Harmony Container, which was Malaysian-flagged. The vessel was let out on time-charter. The plaintiff bunker suppliers, a Singapore company, supplied bunkers to the vessel at Busan, South Korea, pursuant to a request from the time-charterers.

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Jun 4 2008

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