Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiffs’ drilling machine was crated and delivered by freight forwarders to the defendant port authority to be loaded on board the vessel Serra Dourada for carriage to Brazil. In the course of the loading operation (which was done by..

In this case, the Commercial Court has pronounced some interesting dicta on the construction of oil sale contracts expressed to be on C & F terms, but containing specific arrival dates for the cargo. Vitol agreed to sell to Esso Australia a..

In October 1983 Proctor & Gamble concluded a contract with Kurt A. Becher G.m.b.H. for 500 tonnes of Philippine copra expeller cake c.i.f. Rotterdam/Hamburg at $199.50 per tonne. The contract incorporated GAFTA form 100. The shipment period..

On 28 December 1987 the plaintiff applied to the court for an order of arrest and an order allowing expedited discovery of the defendant vessel. The court granted the order and the plaintiff arrested the vessel later on the same day. On 29 December..

Bingham L.JJ.) - 17 February 1988 This case concerned the carriage of 292 television sets from Bochum in the Federal Republic of Germany to Newcastle under Lyme in England by road and sea. The provisions of the Convention on the Contract for the..