Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The vessel Bunga Kenanga was chartered by the claimant owners to the respondent charterers for a period of 9/12 months on a charter-party on the Baltime 1939 form. By agreement the charter-party provided that redelivery of the vessel had to be at a..

The decision of the Trial Court awarding $5.5 million damages was reversed as excessive but Judge Campbell said that on remand the Court could go beyond the market value of a tropical mangrove swamp and assess damages based on the total value of the..

Owners claimed demurrage under an Exxonvoy 1969 charter. The vessel arrived off the loading port and tendered notice of readiness while at the anchorage, as no berth was then available. She remained there for over five days until shifting to the..

In another recent arbitration, on the same form of charter, New York arbitrators have defined “storm” in cl.8. They held that a “storm” must be violent enough or turbulent enough to have caused something of an unusual..