Transol Bunker B.V. v. M.V. Andrico Unity - Supreme Court of South Africa (Adm.Div. Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division) (Marais J.) - 5 June 1987

Maritime lien - Halcyon Isle decision followed in South Africa

The plaintiffs, who had supplied bunkers to the vessel in Argentina, arrested the vessel in Cape Town. The shipowners contended that the alleged Argentine maritime lien was not a maritime lien of the kind envisaged by section 3(4)(a) of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act 105 of 1983 which would entitle enforcement of the claim by an action in rem.