Daily newspaper "Vijesti", 21.01.2013. wrote:
Portuguese ship abandoned in the Bar harbor
Supervision of the "Arion" and thus that Luka Bar keeps a boat, nautical inspector performs the Bar Harbor Master ..
Portuguese passenger ship "Arion", which is the 17th September last year, stopped in Montenegro on behalf of the Commercial Court in Podgorica, was officially handed over to the Port of Bar, because keeping the crew in the meantime left the cruiser that was forcibly tied up in port under Volujica Quay.
Supervision of the "Arion" and thus that Luka Bar keeps a boat, nautical inspector performs the Bar Harbor Master, and as unofficial, the Commercial Court in Podgorica, in the course of the proceedings against the ship owner.
The owner of the company "Classic International Cruises" (CIC) and the procedure was launched Russian tourist agency "R-tours" from Moscow, which had been hired "Arion" before his zaustavanja in Kotor, in mid-September.
Previously the two CIC's ship - cruise ship "Princess Danae" and "Athena" stopped at Marseilles by court order and request the British fuel supplier, company "Cocket Marine Oil" which has not been paid delivered oil.
Early October in the Bay Court in Crete, Greece, arestiran the fourth ship cruise company CIC "Princess Daphne", which at that time was chartered by a German operator.
"Shipowner has duly paid all 120 crew members, and they were then left the ship," said a well-informed source.
The ship was to find out the "Vijesti", the bar held by order of the Commercial Court of Russians who seek to "Arion" impose an injunction prohibiting the departure.
"This is the first time here in Montenegro this case happens and everyone in the chain of the maritime industry up to now the maximum effort to help the shipper that the status of Arion as quickly as possible, and the crew and the ship are disposed of in a proper manner," he said source of "Vijesti".
According to our interviewee who insisted on anonymity, they began to accumulate demurrage costs and keeping the ship in port of Bar 'which will be presented to the Commercial Court and recoup from the woods is now obtained a judicial sale of certain "Arion".
"After leaving the crew on board the other 1,5 - 2 tons of food, and the commander ordered that she be transferred to humanitarian organizations, but I do not know if this is in the news and realized," says interlocutor "Vijesti."
One of the biggest maritime legal authority in Montenegro captain Branko Djurovic from Bar said the "Vijesti" to the example of the "Arion" "should follow the principle of reasonableness, which is often used in the maritime world of compensation and other similar applications. '
"We have a boat that was stopped at sea and who is already three months lying in Bar abandoned by the owner, the bank and the crew., It's unthinkable - that this happens for example in the UK, the court called on all parties and told them: you you must behave in a fair, reasonable and first seek common interests and conflicts that then I will be like the court to resolve.'s how it works in the world, so that ships would not be like this for months and failed to everyone involved in these procedures, they should suffer unnecessary damage, "said Captain Djurovic.
He did not want to declare who is specifically true when the "Arion" in the issue, but noted that "it is not reasonable to stop a ship in full sail and earns, no matter what you might have the right to zaplijeni