The firm has been instructed today to act for most of the cargo owners of F/B ARION, a ro-ro passenger ferry performing services between Piraeus and the Eastern Aegean. The ferry was grounded off Chios island. An LOF (Lloyds' Open Form), the validity of which is doubted by cargo owners, was signed on the 11.2.2005. The firm shall also represent salved interests in an injunction trial scheduled for early March 2005.