Construction Exporting Enterprises, UNECA v. Nikki Maritime Ltd.

MEMORANDUM DECISION

BRIE ANT, District Judge.

This is an action originally filed November 22, 1982, within the general maritime subject matter jurisdiction of this Court. Familiarity is assumed with all prior proceedings. Plaintiff, a corporation existing under the laws of the Republic of Cuba, having its principal office at Havana, Cuba and not present here, was the charterer and apparently also the owner of the Bills of Lading for 5,000 tons of cement and other break bulk cargo carried aboard the M/V RAGNAR of Panamanian registry, owned by defendant Nikki Maritime Ltd., a Liberian corporation…