The court's award of partial compensation against Yury Nikitin, the former vessel chartering partner of Sovcomflot – about $30 million in favour of Sovcomflot – is dwarfed by a separate action by Nikitin to recover $150 million plus interest (about $180 million in all) in compensation for the freeze order Sovcomflot has enforced over Nikitin's assets since 2005. No ruling on that claim has been made yet. Sovcomflot's liability for its defeat in London now stands at more than a quarter of a billion dollars.