Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The vessel Spiros C had been time-chartered by the defendant owners to Mercator Marine on the NYPE form and sub-chartered to Tradigrain Shipping for the carriage of a cargo of Hungarian milling wheat from Constanza to Morocco. The bills of lading..

In December 1992 an agreement was entered into by at least nine shipping corporations, all of which had been state-owned and state-operated regional entities under the Soviet Union. The agreement (‘the GUCA’) was about the general use..

The vessel St John, an OBO of 156,109 DWT, was at a lay up berth in Southampton Water, England prior to departing for the Far East where she was to be scrapped. On the morning of 5 April 1993, in high winds, the stern mooring wire parted. At 0700..

The issue in this appeal was whether the Court had jurisdiction under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 to order that a non-party should personally pay the costs of an action in the absence of any inter partes order for costs. Held, that B..