Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiffs, a Swiss company, owned the vessel Grecian Legend which had been time-chartered by the defendants, a Panamanian Corporation. The plaintiffs claimed some $400,000 for demurrage and had obtained a Mareva injunction from Neill J. The..

The claimant owners chartered their vessel Oltenia to the respondent charterers on an Asbatankvoy form for the carriage of a part cargo of gas-oil from one safe port in the Soviet Black Sea to one or two safe ports in the European Mediterranean. The..

A dispute had arisen over the ro-ro vessel TFL Prosperity chartered by Alltrans to Tor Line on an amended Baltime 1939 form. In brief, the charterers had claimed damages for breach of warranty in that the vessel as supplied did not have the free..

This was an application for leave to appeal under section 1 of the Arbitration Act 1979. The issue was whether owners or charterers should pay any additional war risk premium as a result of the vessel sailing to the Arabian Gulf. Typed clause 53 of..

Award published 21 December 1981 In 1978 the vessel was chartered to carry a full cargo of Taiba phosphates from Dakar to 1/2 Safe ports/anchorages West Coast India in charterers’ option. The vessel was ordered to a port on the West Coast of..

On 20 March 1981 owners time-chartered their vessel to charterers on an NYPE form for a trip always within IWL (subject to certain exceptions, including “Egypt except Suez Canal transit”) to West Africa, delivery to be at Antwerp and..

The plaintiffs were the owners and consignees of cargo damaged by fire onboard and the vessel Tombarra during carriage between Europe and Australia. The plaintiffs sued inter alios the owners of the Tombarra alleging (a) that the goods were..