Creditors of Hanjin Shipping Co. 117930 0.78 % , fearful of having their collateral disappear over the horizon, have asked a U.S. bankruptcy judge to reconsider a ruling preventing them from seizing several of the South Korean carrier’s ships.
A group of creditors who have gone unpaid for services such as towing and fueling say that the judge’s order shouldn’t apply to vessels chartered by Hanjin because they aren’t legally its property. The creditors have liens against Hanjin ships that would ordinarily allow them to foreclose on the vessels.