Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

A cargo of steel pipes carried on board the vessel Handy Prince from Turkey to Houston, Texas sustained damage. Proceedings were commenced in Canada on the last minute instruction of cargo underwriters in order to prevent the running of limitation..

The issue in this matter was whether the applicant had a claim ranking above the claim of the third respondent ("the Bank"), which was the mortgagee of the vessel Mega S. The vessel had initially been registered in Turkey under the name Aksu. The..

On 10 November 2000 Rover Navigation Ltd ("Rover") chartered its vessel Emerald to AOT Trading AG ("AOT") for the carriage of a cargo of gasoil for AOT from Taiwan to the United States. The charterparty contained a New York arbitration clause. AOT..

The plaintiff ("Maritrend") contracted with Serac & Co (Shipping) Ltd ("Serac"), the agent for an undisclosed charterer, to provide stevedoring services to the vessel Sevilla Wave in the Port of New Orleans. Maritrend was never paid for its..

On 5 August 1998 the US District Court for the Southern District of New York found that the petitioner ("Titan") and the respondent ("Guangzhou") were parties to a charterparty on the Shelltime 4 form containing a London arbitration clause, and..