FUKUYO INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, OKURA AND CO. G.M.B.H., FEINSTAHL AG, SCHWEIZ LOKOMOTIV-UND MASCHINENFABRIK, HUETTEN- PRODUKTE A.G. PESTALOZZI, CARL STUERM, UNION UMSCHLAGS A.G., METALLWERKE A.G.,  and all other persons interested in the  cargo now or lately laden on the ship or vessel "GRIESHEIM" (West Germany Flag)  now renamed "VIVACITY" (Panamanian Flag) v THE OWNERS OF THE SHIP OR VESSEL "GRIESHEIM" (West Germany Flag) now  renamed "VIVACITY" (Panamanian Flag)

Read the full judgment text of HCAJ 000088/1978 on BabelCite. This HCAJ judgment was delivered on 4 May 1983.

1. In this matter the plaintiffs are the owners of cargo that, at the end of March 1977, was shipped on board the 1st defendant's vessel "Griesheim", now renamed "Vivacity", for carriage from Japan to Europe. The owners of the vessel at that time were "Griesheim" Unterweser Reederei Beteiligungs Schiffahrt Sges. m.b.H. and  Co. K.G. (Griesheim & Co.). In January 1980 this company sold the vessel to the Neptune Navigation Company and in January 1981 Neptune Navigation Company sold the vessel to S