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A Xihe Group-linked shipowner claimed that HSBC holds legal responsibility for the welfare of crew on a floating storage production and offloading vessel that the bank arrested off Malaysia.
The 298,300-dwt Sea Coral (built 1996) was arrested by HSBC after a Malaysian High Court order last November as part of the bank s recovery action against the collapsed Xihe company Hin Leong Trading.
A crew of 25 have since been stranded on the vessel without pay at the Johor Bahru anchorage. Measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus are among the reasons crew members have not been able to leave the ship.
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By now we are all keenly aware of the near-devastating impact that the novel coronavirus has had on oil markets and the fossil fuel industry around the world. (If this is news to you, what rock do you live under and is there room for one more?) But while a lot of the narrative here in the West has been about the historic oil price crash in what some are now referring to as Black April, the oil trading catastrophe actually started much earlier and can largely be traced back to the bad bet of just one man, Singapore’s commodities tycoon Lim Oon Kuin.