Oil Shipping (Bunkering) BV, Baytur Trading SA, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC and others v Sonmez Denizcilik VE Ticaret AS (The “Ziya S”) - US Court of Appeals (3rd Circuit) (Hutchinson, Cowen and Nygaard Ct JJ) - 8 December 1993

Conflict of priorities between American ship mortgage and Turkish maritime lien - Whether conflict to be determined by normal conflict of laws analysis - Whether US Ship Mortgage Act conclusive in determining priorities

A maritime action was brought by Oil Shipping (Bunkering) BV to obtain payment for certain supplies it had provided to the vessel Ziya S . Baytur Trading SA intervened to enforce a maritime lien for fuel oil it had delivered to the vessel in Turkey. The Royal Bank of Scotland (“the bank”) was the holder of a preferred mortgage on the vessel.