A 2005 court case started in Dubai would trigger retention freighter Marshall Islands by Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz. According to the Danish company Maersk, they agreed to pay US $ 163,000, but a new ruling raised that amount to $ 3.6 million.
Maersk Tigris, freighter detained by Iran
The director of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran Affairs, Mohamad Saidineyad, explained today that the company that owns the ship held yesterday by the Iranian coastal authorities in the Strait of Hormuz owes a large sum to an Iranian private company, why which captured the Coast Guard vessel.
Iranian television reports Hispan TV, on March 16 the Provincial Court in Tehran issued an opinion ordering goods retain Maersk, the owner of the seized ship in the Persian Gulf Danish company.
The Iranian official has detailed Maersk should "considerable sum to the Iranian company" and added that "the Court of Iran has condemned the Danish company to pay its debt."
Saidineyad said that the Coast Guard Iranian informed US forces yesterday traveled to the area to monitor events that the ship had been held up because of a "legal dispute between two commercial companies", after which "US forces complied the decision to retain the vessel, "reports the Persian television.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has expressed today from New York that Iran is committed to release the vessel, flagged in the Marshall Islands. "The Persian Gulf is our lifeline, we will respect international navigation", said the minister, according to Reuters.
The Danish shipping company Maersk has reiterated its call on Iran to release the 24 crew of the American ship that was caught on Tuesday while sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.
Maersk confirmed Thursday that the incident is related to a legal dispute with a charge not collected in Dubai. The case dates back to 2005 and since then has had several comings and goings. According to the Danish company, they agreed to pay US $ 163,000, but a new ruling (hitherto unknown) raised the amount to $ 3.6 million.
"As we have no details of this latest ruling, we can not say anything. At the moment we can not speculate about our options," he said through a statement.
The Danish shipping group A.P. Moeller-Maersk said today that the crew of a freighter detained by Iran is safe and that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark is working with the company to find solutions.
"We are working at full speed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Maersk Tigris and we are in dialogue with Maersk on the case," said a ministry statement quoted by the Danish news agency Ritzau.
The ministry said it expected Iran to meet its international obligations.
"Our clear expectation is that Iran meets its international obligations and that the crew aboard the Maersk Tigris is not damaged," the ministry said in the statement
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