PD.Com: Pretention in a can.
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities impounded a massive cargo vessel that blocked the Suez Canal last month amid a financial dispute with its owner, the canal chief and a judicial official said Tuesday.Lt. Gen. Osama Rabie said the hulking Ever Given would not be allowed to leave the country until a compensation amount is settled on with the vessel’s Japanese owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd.“The vessel is now officially impounded,” he told Egypt’s state-run television late Monday. “They do not want to pay anything.”There was no immediate comment from the vessel’s owner.
Impounding a super tanker over billions in losses is awesome. I wonder will they auction it off like the debtors auctions?