V. Ramasubramanian, J.

1. A vessel by name MV Neamonitisa, registered in Panama and flying a Panamanian Flag, said to be owned by M/s. Trinity Shipping Corporation, Piraeus, Greece, berthed at the port of Visakhapatnam on 14. 2001. On the very next day viz., 14. 2001, 2 Suits in C.S.Nos.34 and 36 of 2001 came to be filed, on the file of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, respectively by (i) Interaccess Marine Bunkering SA, Liberia, and (ii) Gulf Marine and Industrial Supplies Inc., USA.

2. While the prayer in C.S.No.34 of 2001 was for recovery of a sum of USD 90,501.502 from the owners of the aforesaid vessel and for a decree of arrest and detention of the vessel, till the amount is paid, the prayer in C.S.No.36 of 2001 was for recovery of a sum of USD 903,273.56 and for the arrest and detention of the vessel. The claim of the plaintiff in C.S.No.34 of 2001 was that they had supplied bunkers to the vessel, when she was at the ports of Piraeus, Bandirama and Istanbul, during the period from November 2000 to January 2001 and that the value of the supplies so made, was not paid. The claim of the plaintiff in C.S.No.36 of 2001 was that they supplied necessaries to the vesse