Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the charterers’ appeal against the decision of Robert Goff J. [1982] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 43 to the effect that charterers under an Exxonvoy form were liable to reimburse the owners for freight tax payable at..

This was an application by Skandia to stay proceedings under section 1 of the Arbitration Act 1975. The action arose out of damage to a grinding machine which was to be carried from Stockholm to Sudbury via Felixstowe. The plaintiff manufacturers of..

The Evia was one of some 70 ships trapped in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway as a result of the Iran/Iraq war. She had been time-chartered on the Baltime form. When the charterers ordered her to Basrah to discharge a cargo of cement Basrah was a..

In December 1979 the Salem loaded 195,000 tons of crude oil in the Gulf for carriage from Kuwait to Italy. As she went down the east coast of Africa she changed her name to Lema , turned off to Durban and moored to a buoy one and a half miles..

The plaintiffs were the shippers and receivers of a cargo of cocoa butter which was alleged to be contaminated and short-delivered. The first defendants were the time-charterers of the vessel involved, the Henrik Sif. The second defendants were the..