Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

At about 0430 on 23 April 2001 the claimants’ motor fishing vessel Saint Jacques II collided with the first defendant’s vessel Gudermes in the English Channel. The second and third defendants were the owners of the cargo in Gudermes. ..

In 1997 two shipments of cars were misappropriated by customs officers at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The cars had been purchased from Toyota cif Santo Domingo from where the consignees had arranged transhipment to their place of business in..

Cargo owners brought proceedings against the defendant. The defendant asserted that it was not a party to the bill of lading, and that it had signed the bill of lading as agent for the carrier, who was Safmarine and CMBT Lines NV (SCL) trading as..

The second applicant ("the shipowners") and the respondent ("the charterers"), conducted negotiations for a voyage charterparty of the second applicant ("the vessel") through their respective chartering brokers, Parimar Francharte SA of Paris, and..

The applicant obtained the arrest of the bunkers on board the vessel Wisdom. Subsequently, the intervener brought an application to set aside the arrest of the bunkers on the grounds that the intervener was the time charterer of the Wisdom at the..