News / Shipowner to blame, claims industry plaintiffs in latest Ever Given court case

A group of cargo owners are blaming Shoei Kisen Kaisha, the Japanese owner of Ever Given, for last March’s financially catastrophic grounding of the vessel in the Suez Canal.

In an unconventional turn for maritime incidents, it is the 20,388 teu ship’s owner and not crew members being assigned culpability in the most recent court case, brought by Adriaanse Import & Export, JDM Food Group, Rewe-Zentral, TFC Holland and insurers AIG and Allianz.

Following an Egyptian Meteorological Authority forecast of “winds of ...