Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The vessel Evia Luck was owned by a Panamanian company, managed from Greece, and manned inter alios by Filipino nationals under Filipine contracts of employment. In March 1983 the vessel was berthed in Sweden. The I.T.F. boarded the vessel in..

The appellants, Cargill S.R.L., where the buyers of a cargo of wheat from the respondents. The contract was on G.A.F.T.A. form 64 and incorporated G.A.F.T.A. Arbitration Rules No. 125. A dispute arose under the contract. Paragraph 2.8 of the..

Toyomenka contracted to sell crude oil to Hess and to deliver the oil by ship to Hess’s St. Croix terminal between 25 October and 7 November 1989. The contract provided that Hess would pay demurrage for the ship’s laytime at the..

The vessel was chartered on the Gencon form, clause 18 of which provided: Freight deemed earned as per Box 14 and not returnable vessel and/or cargo lost or not lost by perils of the sea. Box 14 provided: Freight payment . . . Payable within 3..

The issue in this arbitration was whether the voyage charter had been concluded with the shipowners or the owners’ managers. Negotiations had taken place on the telex between brokers acting for the charterers, intermediate brokers and brokers..