Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

A cargo of aluminium coils was damaged during a voyage between Sydney and Fremantle. The coils had been stuffed by the shipper into 10 containers. The primary issue in the case was whether the carrier could rely on the ‘perils of the..

The plaintiff was the carrier of three containers of goods from China to Canada. Bills of lading were delivered to the shipper, indicating that the goods were consigned ‘to order’, that the ‘Notify Party’ was the defendant..

On 26 June 1996 the barge Bos 400 ran aground and was wrecked near Cape Town. At the time she was being towed by the tug Tigr . The barge was owned by a French company (‘Bouygues’). The owner of the Tigr (‘Caspian’) was an..

During a severe tropical storm off the Florida coast in November 1994 the vessel Cherry Valley , an oil tanker belonging to Margate Shipping Co, rescued a barge containing a valuable external fuel tank for NASA’s space shuttle. The district..

North Channel Nautical Village Ltd (‘NCNV’) was the parent company of 12 individual shipowning companies (‘the Owners’), each of which owned a floating home. The floating homes (‘the ships’) were operated by NCNV..