Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The vessel Satya Kailash , owned by Seven Seas, had brought a cargo of grain from the U.S. to India. In order to lighten Satya Kailash before entering the discharging port, Seven Seas chartered another vessel - the Oceanic Amity expressly for the..

The defendants had chartered the plaintiffs’ vessel Eurotransport . The plaintiffs claimed freight and demurrage under that charterparty and on 25 January 1982 issued a warrant of arrest against the Kum Susan Ho in Hong Kong under the..

In December 1981 the vessel Gotland II , chartered by the West German Government for the German Antarctic Expedition, became trapped by ice near Yule Bay and subsequently sank. In her hold she carried a Hughes 500D Helicopter C-GPNN. The plaintiff,..

The owners’ vessel, Golfo di Palermo , was insured with the Italian market under an Italian policy implemented by reference to both the Institute Time (Hulls) Clauses and the Institute War & Strikes (Hulls) Clauses ed 1 October 1970. The..

In a judgment delivered on 23 June 1982, Bingham J. granted charterers leave to appeal against the arbitrator’s award in a “one-off” case arising out of a charterparty. In addition to granting leave to appeal on certain issues, the..

This was an application under section 2 of the Arbitration Act 1979 for the determination of a point of law arising in the course of a reference to arbitration. The issue was the construction of clause 5 of the relevant charterparty which provided: ..

The Court was considering a Special Case stated by an umpire. One of the issues was whether the Court could interfere with the umpire’s conclusion that the owners were in fundamental breach of the relevant charterparty. The charterers..