Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The vessel Cape Equinox was chartered on an Americanised Welsh Coal Charter Form (amended 1979) for a voyage from Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal in Australia to Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico. The vessel arrived at the discharge port on 12 December 2001 and..

Czarnikow sold to World Trade Corporation 10,000 mt of sugar on CIFFO East African port terms. Under the contract, the buyers had to pay a US$350,000 deposit to stand as security for their performance. The sellers alleged that the buyers were in..

Farocean were yacht and shipbuilders in Capetown. Farocean alleged that the second respondent ("R") concluded an agreement with Farocean whereby Farocean agreed to carry out the rebuilding and refit of the vessel Summit One. The relevant discussions..

The appellant ("Meihuizen") was the ship and cargo agent in South Africa for the first respondent ("TMP"). TMP was a Portuguese company based in Lisbon and was the owner of the vessel TMP Sagittarius. The second respondent ("Maviga"), an English..

Turkish Ocumuslar Tic. sold a cargo of larch and redwood to Swedish ESI "c&f free out Alexandria" with special duty for ESI to charter a vessel for the cargo. ESI sold the cargo on to El Tawfik "cif Alexandria port free and out". The timber was..

A time charter involved the carriage of paper rolls on the ro-ro vessel Baltic Press. On a trip from Norrköping to Lübeck the vessel left Norrköping with the aft ramp unlocked, which caused it to open during the transport, trailing in..