Chinese creditors pile $4.2m in claims on arrested tanker

Six Chinese engineering service companies and equipment suppliers have filed an arrest warrant against an aframax tanker, which was detained last week by one of their competitors in the Indian port of Sikka.

Ever Marine Engineering Trading, acting on behalf of the five other companies that assigned their claims to it, secured an arrest order for the 105,000-dwt crude carrier Argent (built 2005) over a collective $4.2m