Seaboard Marine Gets Claims Shaved in Suit Over Cuban Property

Seaboard Marine Ltd. convinced a federal judge in Florida to dismiss 17 of 18 relatives from a lawsuit that alleges the ocean transportation company is violating the Libertad Act by using property that had been confiscated from the family by the Cuban government during the Fidel Castro regime.

Odette Blanco De Fernandez filed the lawsuit in December with 17 others to recover damages under Title III of the Libertad Act in connection with facilities at the Port of Mariel in Cuba. Blanco De Fernandez alleges her family owned a business at the site called Maritima Mariel SA before it was ...