In Re the Arbitration Between Proodos Marine Carriers Co. & Overseas Shipping & Logistics

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, District Judge:

This case arises on petitioner’s motion to compel arbitration, and respondent’s cross-motion to confirm a prior partial award of an arbitration panel, fill' a vacancy in that panel, and restrict the issues which may come before the panel in future. The case was originally assigned to Judge Cannella. In his temporary absence from court, it came to the undersigned sitting in Part I because the circumstances required prompt resolution. Those circumstances involve imminent dates for voyages to be performed under the contract which forms the…