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Pan Ocean Shipping Co Ltd v Creditcorp Ltd (The “Trident Beauty”) - House of Lords (Lord Keith, Lord Goff, Lord Lowry, Lord Slynn and Lord Woolf) - 27 January 1994
Trident Shipping Co were the disponent owners of a fleet of fourteen vessels. One of these vessels was the Trident Beauty
, of which the owners were the United Arab Shipping Company, and which Trident operated under the terms of a bare boat charter...
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05 February 1994
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Columbus - America Discovery Group Inc v The unidentified, Wrecked and Abandoned Sailing Vessel believed to be the SS Central America - US District Ct (ED Virginia) - 18 November 1993
On 12 September 1857 the luxury passenger liner Central America
sank in the Atlantic Ocean after encountering a hurricane whilst in the course of a run from Panama to New York. 452 passengers and a quantity of gold were on board the vessel when she..
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05 February 1994
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Hong Kong Arbitration 1/94
The issue in this arbitration was whether the shipowners were entitled to withdraw the vessel consequent upon a delay by the charterers in providing the contractual cargo. The Tribunal referred to the so-called “Jupiter” scandal in the..
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05 February 1994
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372 - 05 February 1994
Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd v R J International Inc (The “Elevit”) - Before Manfred W Arnold, A J Siciliano and Michael A van Gelder, Chairman - 8 January 1994
The vessel Elevit
was chartered on the Gencon form. The charterparty called for the charterers to supply a full cargo of 16,600 metric tons (5% more or less in owner’s option) of pre-slung bagged sugar at one safe berth Iloilo, Philippines..
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05 February 1994
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372 - 05 February 1994