Lloyd's Shipping & Trade Law

Cosco Bulk Carrier Co Ltd v Team-Up Owning Co Ltd (The M/V ‘Saldanha’) [2010] EWHC 1340 (Comm)

The year is 2010; the ‘Year of the Seafarer’. Yet UK headlines are filled with the threat of major shipping companies de-flagging if forced to pay seafarers, regardless of their nationality, the same UK minimum wage.

EC law – Maritime cabotage – Temporary exemption from the application of regulation – Obligation on member states to refrain from adopting, before expiry of the period of exemption, provisions liable seriously to compromise the application of that regulation — Right of individuals to rely on the regulation to challenge the validity of national provisions having such an effect