The lawyers of Lex Marine law office successfully defended the interests of Owners in a case related to the misdeclaration of a ship’s supplies before the local Customs.

At the end of May 2018 mv Star Artemis called Nikolayev port. The master submitted to the Customs office the IMO ship’s store declaration where he indicated that there were 174,8 mt of diesel oil remaining on board. When the Customs officers performed a custom examination of the vessel, they found that there were 188,015 mt of diesel oil, which was 13,215mt more than was declared by the master. The Customs officers issued a protocol for violation of customs rules by the master for misdeclaration of 13,215 mt of diesel…

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