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Andre & Cie v Orient Shipping Rotterdam BV (The “Laconian Confidence”) - QBD (Com Ct)(Rix J) - 9 October 1996
The vessel Laconian Confidence
was chartered on the NYPE form for a time charter trip from Yangon to Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi port authorities refused to allow the vessel to proceed to her next business following discharge because of the..
Online Published Date:
07 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
446 - 07 December 1996
Union de Remorquage et de Sauvetage SA v Lake Avery Inc (The “Lake Avery”) - QBD (Admlty Ct)(Clarke J) - 4 November 1996
The plaintiff salvors claimed a declaration that they had made a contract with the defendant shipowners on the LOF 95 form. The shipowners said that the Court should decline jurisdiction under Article 21 or Article 22 of the 1968 Civil Jurisdiction..
Online Published Date:
07 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
446 - 07 December 1996
Centro Latino Americano De Commercio Exterior SA v The Owners of the Ship “Kommunar” (No 3) - QBD (Admlty Ct)(Colman J) - 17 October 1996
On 22 May 1996 the Admiralty Court gave judgment setting aside the writ and releasing the vessel Kommunar
from arrest (see LMLN 436 - 20 July 1996).
The Court subsequently made an order that the plaintiff should bear the whole of the costs of the..
Online Published Date:
07 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
446 - 07 December 1996
London Arbitration 14/96
The vessel was chartered on the Gencon form for the carriage of a part cargo of 10,000 metric tons of “12M DEBAR IN BUNDLES OF ABOUT 2.5 MTS”. The owners claimed demurrage. The charterers contended that the delay at the loading port..
Online Published Date:
07 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
446 - 07 December 1996
Galaxy Energy International Ltd v Novorossiysk Shipping Co (The “Petr Schmidt”) - QBD (Com Ct) (Longmore J) - 8 November 1996
The vessel Petr Schmidt
was chartered on the Asbatankvoy form. Printed clause 6 provided:
NOTICE OF READINESS
“Upon loading at customary anchorage at each port of loading or discharge, the Master or his agent shall give the charterer or his..
Online Published Date:
21 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
447 - 21 December 1996
Profer AG v The Owners of the Ship “Tjaskemolen” (now named “Visvliet”) - QBD (Admlty Ct)(Clarke J) - 5 November 1996
The plaintiff charterers arrested the vessel Visvliet
in Liverpool on 20 June 1996. The defendant owners subsequently applied to discharge the security provided to procure the vessel’s release. They relied on the fact that an arrest of the..
Online Published Date:
21 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
447 - 21 December 1996
Mauritius Oil Refineries Ltd v Stolt Nielsen Nederland BV (The “Stolt Sydness”) - QBD (Com Ct)(Rix J) - 13 November 1996
The vessel Stolt Sydness
was chartered under a voyage charter which expressly provided for London arbitration and English law. There was a USA Clause Paramount which incorporated the United States Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1936 (“US..
Online Published Date:
21 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
447 - 21 December 1996
Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd v Schiffahrtsgesellschaft “LESUM” mbH & Co KG - QBD (Com Ct)(Langley J) - 4 November 1996
The charterers (respondents in the arbitration) applied for remission of the arbitrators’ Final Award on the ground of technical misconduct under section 22(1) of the Arbitration Act 1950. They said that one of the many submissions made by..
Online Published Date:
21 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
447 - 21 December 1996
Continental Pacific Shipping Ltd v Deemand Shipping Co Ltd (The “Lendoudis Evangelos II”) - QBD (Com Ct)(Longmore J) - 15 November 1996
The vessel Lendoudis Evangelos
was chartered for one time charter trip “duration about 70/80 days without guarantee”. In the event, the trip took 103 days 12 hours 40 minutes, and the owners claimed compensation for wrongful detention..
Online Published Date:
21 December 1996
Appeared in issue:
447 - 21 December 1996