Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiff specialised in the leasing of multimodal containers to international shipping firms. Baltic Shipping Company (“Baltic”) was a shipowner operating, in international trade, a fleet of container vessels of which the Nikolay..

The vessel MV Woodlands was time-chartered to Tight Links Shipping Society Inc. The charterers’ agents negotiated rates for the loading of cargoes at Montreal with a stevedoring company, Furncan Marine Ltd (“the stevedores”)...

The ship was arrested by cargo interests in security for a cargo claim which they brought before the District Court of Amsterdam. The cargo interests relied on a newly introduced provision (Article 629) in the Dutch Code of Civil Procedure..

Astra Oil Company concluded a lighterage agreement with Skaugen Petrotrans Ltd to perform a lighterage operation involving a cargo of 360,000 bbls of high sulphur fuel oil on the tanker Mantinia . The cargo was to be conveyed from the tanker to the..

Our summary of Atlantic Insurance Co Ltd v Pine Top Insurance Co LMLN 389 stated that, so far as the materiality point was concerned, the decisive influence test was rejected by the majority of the House of Lords, and went on to say that the true..