HC orders arrest of vessel owned by MSC on admiralty suit filed by five exporters
The Kerala High Court has ordered the arrest of Liberian-flagged vessel MV MSC Manasa F, along with among others, its paraphernalia, furniture, etc., at present anchored in the Vizhinjam Port, on an admiralty suit filed by five exporters who lost their consignment following the sinking of Liberian-flagged container vessel MSC Elsa 3 off the Kochi coast on May 25.
This order will remain in effect until the owner firm of the vessels deposited ₹6 crore in the High Court. The counsel for the petitioners submitted that each one of them had lost containers in which they had sent their cargo, when the vessel sank.
The warrant of arrest would be withdrawn, and the conditional order of arrest would automatically be vacated once the amount was deposited or security was furnished by the company in the court, without (waiting for) any further order, the court said.
The shipping company does not have any movable or immovable properties within the territory of India, and hence, the petitioners were entitled to invoke the admiralty jurisdiction of the court for the arrest and detention of the vessel, their counsel said.
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