Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

In July 1979 the plaintiffs (charterers) time-chartered the vessel Agios Georgis from her owners on the NYPE form for the carriage of “scrap . . . including turnings which if loaded shall be chemically treated”. The defendants were..

The defendant owners time-chartered two vessels to the plaintiff charterers. The charterers subsequently sub-chartered the vessels to the second defendants. A dispute arose concerning cargo stowage restrictions. Under the standard arbitration clause..

A recent London arbitration dealt with something of a novel point. The question was a short and simple one. The vessel was chartered on the Baltime form. Expenses were incurred by the owners for cleaning the ship’s sludge tanks. The owners..

Clause 1 of the charterparty provided: That the said vessel . . . shall . . . proceed to one, two, three, or four safe ports, one or two safe berths, each in the US North Pacific (Columbia River District, including Portland and Pueget Sound..

This was a preliminary question of law to decide whether a contract for the sale of the vessel Nissos Samos for scrap had been concluded. In the course of his decision, Leggatt J. stated obiter : In my judgment, even when on 23 April agreement in..

The plaintiff owners of the vessel Hasselt sued the defendant insurers of the cargo owners for a general average claim relating to expenses incurred as a result of a fire on board the vessel. At first instance (see LMLN 66 - 13 May 1982) the trial..