Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiffs had chartered the defendant vessel on a Gencon form for the carriage of a cargo of canned fish from Peru to Durban. When the cargo was received on board in Peru, the master issued a bill of lading, not to the charterer but to the..

The defendant further submitted that the London arbitration clause in the charterparty was invalidated by section 310(6) of the South African Merchant Shipping Act 57 of 1951, which provides: Any . . . agreement . . . purporting to oust the..

On 9 January 1980 the respondent International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) announced that, as a protest against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, its members would not handle any cargo bound to, or coming from, the Soviet Union or..

By a charterparty on the NYPE form, charterers hired the vessel Matija Gubec for one Far East voyage with an option to take the vessel for 12 months, “45 days more or less”, and a second option, to extend the first period by further 12..

The collision occurred shortly after 22 00 on 8 January 1979 just south of Vancouver Wharves in the northern portion of the Narrows in Vancouver harbour between Brockton Point and the First Narrows Bridge. Stormcrest , a tug of some 59 gross tons..

The Federal Court of Appeal considered in some detail the question whether a party could adduce expert evidence relating to a particular aspect of navigation, where nautical assessors had been appointed to assist the court. The Court recognized that..

The plaintiff (disponent) owners of the Akmi agreed with the defendant shippers to carry a quantity of asbestos from Quebec City to Kuwait. At the time, the plaintiff insisted that the goods must not be “in transit” goods being shipped..