The claimant was a German ship management company that managed six anchor-handling tugs on behalf of their owners. The claimant also had a small shareholding in the German companies that owned the vessels. On 4 November 2014 the claimant issued six in rem claims in the Admiralty Court against the owners and/or demise charterers of vessels. The first claim (the ship management claims) was that the owner of the vessel had wrongfully terminated the management agreement by selling the vessel without due notice to the claimant. The second claim (the articles of association claims) was expressed in the following terms.
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