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Lantic Sugar Ltd v Blue Tower Trading Corporation and others (The “Violetta”) - Federal Court of Appeal (Hugessen, MacGuigan and Decary JJA) - 28 October 1993

The plaintiff cargo interests claimed damages in respect of the contamination of their cargo of raw bulk sugar resulting from the ingress of salt water into the holds of the vessel Violetta while en route to Australia to Saint John, New Brunswick...

Online Published Date: 22 January 1994

Appeared in issue: 371 - 22 January 1994

All Pacific Trading Inc and others v The vessel M/V “Hanjin Yosu” - US Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (Browning, Farris and Kelly Ct JJ) - 22 October 1993

The plaintiffs were the owners or subrogated insurers of various goods transported on the vessel Hanjin Yosu . The goods were not delivered directly to the vessel but to several different non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs), who issued..

Online Published Date: 22 January 1994

Appeared in issue: 371 - 22 January 1994

South Carolina State Ports Authority v M/V “Levant Fortune” - US District Ct (District of South Carolina, Charleston Div) (C Weston Houck DJ) - 30 September 1993

The plaintiff supplied necessaries to the vessel Levant Fortune (then named Valiant ) at the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, between April 1988 and March 1990, in the total sum of $171,684.34. In June 1990 the vessel was arrested in Piraeus,..

Online Published Date: 22 January 1994

Appeared in issue: 371 - 22 January 1994

Texport Oil Co v M/V “Amolyntos” - US Court of Appeals (Second Circuit) (Feinberg, Timbers and Miner Ct JJ) - 9 December 1993

The plaintiff bought 60,000 tonnes of Romanian gasoline from Bulk Oil, a Swiss Company. The gasoline was purchased on CIF terms. As sold, the gasoline was not marketable in the US because the octane level was too low to meet US standards. The..

Online Published Date: 22 January 1994

Appeared in issue: 371 - 22 January 1994