Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Admiralty jurisdiction – Maritime lien – Collapse of OW Bunker Group – Whether physical supplier of bunkers entitled to maritime lien – Whether assignment of liens by maritime lienholder to secured creditor valid – Whether physical supplier of bunkers had standing to appeal assignment ruling

General average – Vessel grounding on uncharted shoal leaving port of Xiamen – Whether cargo interests obliged to contribute to general average – Whether actionable fault on part of owners – Whether vessel’s passage plan defective – Whether defective passage plan made vessel unseaworthy

Carriage of goods by sea – Barratry – Chief engineer deliberately setting fire to vessel – Relevance of chief engineer’s state of mind – Whether shipowners entitled to rely on Hague Rules exemptions of “fire”

Charterparty – Laytime – Seizure of cargo by local customs authorities causing delay to discharge – Whether time lost caused by “government interferences”