[cafard]

I remember reading of an oil company waiting until a tanker was in New York harbor to file some sort of case it thought better heard in New York.

[FireBeyond]

Odd that an oil company with enough size to own a tanker wouldn't have an office in NYC.

[saosebastiao]

I think you'd be surprised at how low of an overhead some shipping companies run. I've visited the US headquarters of a publicly traded Greek dry bulk shipping company with a market cap in the hundreds of millions of dollars...it was in a strip mall in Richmond CA, and it looked like a small local accounting office with a staff of maybe 10 people.