Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiff brought an action in rem and in personam against the vessels FB XIX and FB XX, and their owners, Feeding Systems A/S, claiming $74,929.75 for necessaries supplied to those two vessels ("the Canadian necessaries claim"). The FB XIX and..

The vessel was chartered on the NYPE form on 29 June for one time-charter trip from the US Gulf to the Mediterranean with grain or grain products. The charterparty provided that the vessel should be in a thoroughly efficient state, with her holds..

Further disputes arose under the charterparty which was the subject of London Arbitration 12/03. Under performance The owners accepted that there had been some under performance on both the ballast passage Brixham/SW Pass and SW Pass/Beirut. The..

The claimants shipped cargoes of sawn timber on vessels operated by a Swedish liner company. Clause 7 of the carrier's standard conditions provided that the carrier "shall be entitled to sub-contract on any terms the whole or any part of the..