non-payment of maritime works and protective seizure in French Polynesia

A company specialized in maritime works carried out works on a pleasure boat and is facing a refusal of payment for these maritime works in French Polynesia.

The ship is at a shipyard on the Côte d'Azur and the company fears that the ship's owner, who has brought in new companies without informing his project manager, will finish the works without them and launch the ship without paying them.

After analyzing all the elements related to the maritime works, namely, the quote validated by the owner, the proof of the execution of the works for which payment is required, proof of payment requests that remained unsuccessful, the various emails exchanged with the captain, etc, I therefore proceed to an immediate protective seizure of the ship, covering the amount of the works and the lawyer's and bailiff's fees.

Authorized by the Judge, the seizure of the boat is carried out.

The yacht owner will only be able to retrieve it by obtaining a release of seizure from the judge, which will only be given if the owner deposits the required sum in advance with the Deposits and Consignments Fund.

The maritime protective seizure is a good way to guarantee due payments.

Whether you are seafarers, companies, marinas, ports, is a maritime debt owed to you? Call Me Florence ROMEO, maritime law attorney in French Polynesia.