Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The vessel Botany Triad was damaged in a collision with the vessel Lu Shan off the coast of South Africa on 6 December 1985. Part of Botany Triad’s cargo of transformer oil was lost. That oil had been shipped under two bills of lading. The..

On 2 October 1990 a Boeing 737 aircraft was hijacked in the course of a flight from Xiamen to Baiyun Airport, Guangzhou. When the aircraft eventually landed at Baiyun Airport it collided with a Boeing 707 and a Boeing 757 which were parked on an..

The owners of the vessel chartered her on the Norgrain 1973 form for the carriage of goods from a South American port to the Soviet Black Sea or Baltic. Whilst the ship was loading in Argentina the charterers requested the owners to load an..

In September 1988 the Polish ship Tatry loaded a cargo of soyabean oil in Brazil for delivery at Rotterdam and Hamburg. Part of the cargo was discharged in Rotterdam on 1 October 1988; the balance was discharged at Hamburg on 4 October 1988. All..

In August 1984 the Vessel Alpha sailed from Abidjan bound for Ango Ango, a port in Zaire about 70 miles up the Zaire river. While she was waiting for a pilot to take her up river she went aground on the Mona Mazea Bank. While the ship’s..