Ecuadorian banana exporter Frutadeli S.A. has filed a bankruptcy petition against the Russian wholesale fruit supplier Troya Import. The claim, submitted to the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region on March 30, follows an unresolved debt of $749,000 owed by the Russian company.
Legal disputes between the two firms began in November 2023 over banana shipments delivered in late 2020. Frutadeli supplied Troya Import with six shipments, each containing 10 containers of premium Cavendish bananas, totaling $670,300. However, the Russian company only paid $5,000, later disputing the validity of the contract and claiming it had purchased the fruit from a different Ecuadorian supplier, Damascoswett S.A.
Despite these arguments, the court ruled in favor of Frutadeli. On June 26, 2024, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg ordered Troya Import to pay $665,300 in outstanding debt plus $83,700 in interest. This decision was upheld by the 13th Arbitration Court of Appeal in October 2024 and by the Northwestern District Arbitration Court in March 2025.
Troya Import, a major fruit wholesaler since 2014, once reported annual revenues exceeding 3 billion rubles. However, its financial situation has sharply declined, with revenue dropping to 154 million rubles in 2023 and hitting zero in 2024. The company had previously announced plans to file for bankruptcy itself, but no official filing has been registered in court records yet.
Source: www.rbc.ru