Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Sigval Bergesen, a Norwegian shipowner and Joseph Muller Corporation, a Swiss company, entered into three charterparties in 1969, 1970 and 1971. The 1969 and 1970 charters provided for the transportation of chemicals from the US to Europe. The 1971..

This was an action in rem by Filipino seamen for wages due and payable to them by the owner of the Cyprus registered vessel Houda Pearl . In October 1978, while the vessel’s sister ship Houda Star was in the Italian port of La Spezia, the..

The vessel was chartered to carry a cargo of fuel oil from the Caribbean to one Far East port. The charter provided that the ship was to perform the voyage via the Panama Canal and that a lump sum freight of $700,000 was payable upon delivery of the..

This was a consolidated arbitration arising from two separate time charters. The Olympic Armour charter was dated 30 April 1966, while the Olympic Breeze charter was dated 8 February 1977. The issue was whether the shipowners were entitled to be..