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Semco Salvage & Marine Pte Ltd v Lancer Navigation Co Ltd (The “Nagasaki Spirit) - Court of Appeal (Staughton, Evans and Swinton Thomas LJJ) - 21 December 1995
On the evening of 19 September 1992 the crude oil tanker Nagasaki Spirit
collided with the container ship Ocean Blessing
in the northern part of the Malacca Straits. About 12,000 tonnes of Nagasaki Spirit
’s cargo were released into the sea..
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20 January 1996
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Egon Oldendorff v Liberia Corporation - QBD (Com Ct)(Clarke J) - 16 November 1995
The plaintiffs were a German commercial partnership and the defendants were a Japanese corporation. The plaintiffs claimed damages for breach of a contract said to have been made for the 10 year charter by them of two Panamax bulk carriers, which..
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20 January 1996
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423 - 20 January 1996
Morewitz v The West of England Shipowners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association (Luxembourg) - US Court of Appeals (11th Circuit)(Carnes and Barkett Ct JJ and Floyd R Gibson Senr Ct J) - 6 September 1995
The administrator of estates of seamen aboard the vessel Imbros
which disappeared at sea brought a direct action against the vessel’s English insurers seeking to enforce underlying wrongful death judgments against the vessel’s managing..
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20 January 1996
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423 - 20 January 1996
Tbilisi Shipping Co Ltd v Pemex Refinacion - Before John P Besman, Lawrence J Jacobson and Pieter L M Vismans, Chair - 5 December 1995
The vessel Tbilisi
was chartered under a Texacotime 2 timecharter. The charterers alleged that during the discharge of cargo at Guaymas, Mexico on 14 December 1992, parcels of jetfuel lead-free gasoline and diesel oil became comingled and..
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20 January 1996
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423 - 20 January 1996