Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The defendant, Captain John T Vatis, was involved for many years in Kronos Maritime Agency SA (“Kronos Maritime”) a company managing a fleet of vessels owned by one-ship companies. By September 1994 the business of Kronos Maritime had..

On the trial of preliminary issues the Court held (on 30 April 1997) that the plaintiffs’ claims against the defendants in relation to the acquisition of the vessel Ardent failed, and that the claims brought by two of the defendants also..

The vessel was chartered for a voyage for the carriage of bulk potash from a named port to one or two berths at a named discharging port, completing one or two berths at a second named discharging port. The owners prepared separate laytime..

The owners claimed time charter hire or damages equivalent to hire, together with bunkers, arising out of the alleged inordinate amount of time taken by the charterers to carry out an inspection at the commencement of the charterparty. The vessel..