Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Mr. Justice Parker, the Judge in charge of the Commercial List, has given his interpretation of how the Nema guidelines (see LMLN 45 - 23 July 1981) should be applied when deciding whether to give leave to appeal from an arbitration award under the..

Having dealt with The Nema guidelines, Parker J. went on to apply them to the facts of the case before him. The appellants had shipped 56 packages of pipe sections on board the vessel Kerman owned by the respondents for carriage to Khorramshahr...

In October 1971 the Aquacharm was time-chartered by Sanko on the NYPE form to carry a cargo of coal from Baltimore to Tokyo. The charterers ordered her to load up to the draught “permissible by the Panama Canal Company of 39 ft. 6 ins...

29 September 1981 The applicants chartered the vessel World Prestige from the respondent owners under a tanker voyage charterparty dated 1 June 1979. Two points arose. Clause 7 of the charter provided that if any cargo remained on board after..

The appellant Ministry were receivers of a cargo of wheat carried in the vessel Emmanuel Colocotronis owned by the respondents. The cargo was shipped under a bill of lading which contained a clause listing excepted perils and then the wording: Unto..

The plaintiff was a Swiss forwarding agent who issued proceedings in South Africa for the recovery of fees for arranging the shipment of a crane belonging to the defendant, a South African importer of engineering equipment. The claim arose out of a..