Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Prior to 1 January 1992 arbitrators had no power to dismiss a claim for want of prosecution on the ground of inordinate and inexcusable delay (see Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau v. South India Shipping Corporation Ltd. [1981] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 253)...

6 April 1993 The plaintiff cargo interests chartered the defendants’ vessel Ibn Sina for the carriage of a cargo of potatoes in bags and citrus in cartons from Alexandria to Hamburg. The plaintiffs alleged that the vessel deviated in breach of..

The moored vessel Rhone was struck by the barge Peter A.B. Widener (“Widener ”) in the Port of Montreal. At the time of the collision, the Widener was being towed by four tugs. Two of the four tugs, the South Carolina and the Ohio ,..

This case concerned a serial sale of waste paper of Japanese origin. The ultimate consumer was an Indian company (“the Indian buyers”) who entered into an agreement with a Singapore company, the plaintiffs, for the purchase of pure white..

The second and third defendants were companies incorporated in France. An order for discovery and inspection of documents had been made against them by Evans J. The companies now applied to the Court for an order that the order of Evans J. be..