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Cosco Bulk Carrier Co Ltd v Armada Shipping SA and Anr (The "Spar Sirius") - Ch D (Briggs J) - 11 February 2011
On 3 September 2009 Cosco Bulk Carrier Co Ltd (“Cosco”), as disponent owners, chartered the vessel Spar Sirius to Armada Shipping SA (“Armada”) under a time charter on the NYPE form as amended (“the head..
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08 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
816 - 08 March 2011
Antonio Gramsci Shipping Corporation and Ors v Stepanovs - QBD (Com Ct)(Burton J) - 25 February 2011
In Antonio Gramsci Shipping Corporation and Ors v Recoletos Ltd and Ors (“the Corporate Defendants’ action”) 30 “one ship” companies, all in the ultimate beneficial ownership of the Latvian Shipping Company..
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08 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
816 - 08 March 2011
Melinda Holdings SA v Hellenic Mutual War Risks Association (Bermuda) Ltd (The "Silva") - QBD (Com Ct)(Burton J) - 18 February 2011
In 1996 the owners and the managers of the vessel Safir (among other defendants) were found liable by the Port Said Court of First Instance in respect of a pollution incident in 1989 when the Safir grounded off the coast of Egypt. The defendants..
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08 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
816 - 08 March 2011
Melinda Holdings SA v Hellenic Mutual War Risks Association (Bermuda) Ltd (The "Silva") - QBD (Com Ct)(Burton J) - 18 February 2011
In 1996 the owners and the managers of the vessel Safir (among other defendants) were found liable by the Port Said Court of First Instance in respect of a pollution incident in 1989 when the Safir grounded off the coast of Egypt. The defendants..
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08 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
806 - 15 October 2010
Alphamate Commodity GmbH v CHS Europe SA and Anr (The "Golden Star") - United States Court of Appeals (5th Circuit)(Jones CJ, Prado Ct J and O'Connor DJ) - 29 November 2010
The plaintiff (“Alphamate”) obtained a Rule B attachment in New Orleans on a shipment of corn that had been loaded on the vessel Golden Star bound for Green Valley for Animal Feed Libya (“AFL”) in Tripoli, Libya. Alphamate..
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18 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
817 - 18 March 2011
Claxton Engineering Services Ltd v TXM Olaj-Es Gazkutato Kft - QBD (Com Ct)(Hamblen J) - 1 February 2011
On 5 November 2009 the claimant issued proceedings in the English courts against the defendant, a Hungarian company, for allegedly unpaid debts approaching £2 million for the manufacture and delivery of oil well equipment.
The defendant..
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18 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
817 - 18 March 2011
Udovenko v The ship "Pelican" - High Court of New Zealand in Admiralty (Gendall J) - 8 November 2010
The plaintiff, a crew member of the vessel Pelican and a resident of New Zealand, brought an in rem claim against the vessel for wages, superannuation and damages. The vessel was registered in New Zealand.
An Australian company (“the..
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18 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
817 - 18 March 2011
London Arbitration 1/11
The vessel was chartered out by disponent owners (“owners”) on the NYPE 1946 form as amended for a period of 13-15 months, 15 days more or less at the charterers’ option. Redelivery was to take place on dropping outward sea pilot..
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18 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
817 - 18 March 2011
The United States of America v Shochat and Ors (The "Altuvia") - Supreme Court of Israel (Naor, Hayut and Amit JJ) - 3 August 2010
On 21 December 1990 the vessel Altuvia was transporting crew members of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga from the dock at Haifa Port back to the Saratoga at anchor. Before reaching the Saratoga the Altuvia sank in Israeli territorial..
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18 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
817 - 18 March 2011
SW Traders LLC v United Specialty Insurance and Anr (The "Pacific Dawn") - US Court of Appeals (9th Circuit)(Fletcher, Fernandez and Bybee Ct JJ) - 18 November 2010
The appellant, SW Traders LLC, appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favour of the appellee insurers. The appellant had sought to recover payment under an insurance policy in respect of losses sustained by the vessel..
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18 March 2011
Appeared in issue:
817 - 18 March 2011