Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

By a contract dated 24 July 1998 Ascot agreed to sell to Olam 3,000 tonnes of Vietnamese white rice +/- 10% C & F Owendo, Gabon. Ascot chartered the vessel Agra to carry the cargo of 3,300 tonnes ("the Owendo parcel"). Ascot breached the..

This case concerned the contamination of two cargoes of chemicals, carbon tetracholoride ("CTC") and 2-hexanol ("2-EH"). The contamination was discovered shortly after the chemicals had started to be loaded on board the Hamilton I at Constanza on..

The plaintiff supplied bunkers to ships, and entered into a contract with Marine Shipping Co Inc ("MSCI") a former charterer of the vessel Lyubov Orlova whereby the plaintiff was to supply bunkers to various ships operated by MSCI, and the terms of..

On 24 November 1997 Glencore Shipping Ltd ("Glencore") entered into a contract of affreightment with Goldbeam Shipping Ltd ("Goldbeam") on the Synacomex form for the carriage of between three and five cargoes inter alia of soyapellets in bulk from..