Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiff cargo owners alleged that their cargo had suffered loss and damage as a result of the breach of contract and/or breach of duty of the defendant demise charterers. The cargo had been carried in the vessel Deichland. The defendants were..

The plaintiff cargo interests entered into a contract of carriage with the defendant owners of the vessel European Enterprise for the carriage of a consignment of meat from Dover to Calais. The goods were loaded to the upper deck and were damaged..

The fishing vessel Wavie II was owned by the respondent and was insured by the appellants under a Hull and Machinery Time Policy. She was lost on 12 June 1987 as a result of an insured peril but the appellants refused to pay out under the policy on..

Pacific Austral (a freight forwarder) had been retained by the plaintiff cargo owner to arrange a shipment of two marine diesel engines from Osaka to Sydney. In the course of discharge the crate in which the second of the engines was stowed fell..

The vessel was chartered under the Asbatankvoy form as amended. Clause 6 of the charter provided: Upon arrival at customary anchorage at each port . . . the Master or his agent shall give the charterer or his agent notice by letter, telegraph,..