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Kent Trade and Finance Inc and Ors v JP Morgan Chase Bank and Anr (The “Lanner”) – Canadian Federal Court of Appeal (Richard CJ, Pelletier and Ryer JJA) – 12 December 2008
(2009) 763 LMLN 2(2)
Three suppliers of necessaries (“the claimants”) supplied fuel oil to the vessel Lanner on various occasions. None of the claimants were American companies; the Lanner was not an American-registered vessel, and the..
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16 February 2009
Appeared in issue:
763 - 18 February 2009
Transport and Logistic Consulting SA v Schlumberger Seaco Inc – QBD (Com Ct) (HH Judge Chambers QC sitting as a Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division) – 27 January 2009
(2009) 763 LMLN 2
In 2004 the claimants agreed to provide marine agency services to a company in the defendants’ group (“Galaxie”) in connection with operations centred upon Luba Free Port in Equatorial Guinea. The Customs..
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16 February 2009
Appeared in issue:
763 - 18 February 2009
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Bermuda) Ltd v BP Shipping Ltd – QBD (Com Ct) (Blair J – 29 January 2009
(2009) 763 LMLN 1
The claimant had managed the defendant’s vessels over a 20 year period since 1987. On 1 July 1994, at a time when the defendant owned 17 vessels, the parties entered into a new agreement whereby the claimant provided crew..
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16 February 2009
Appeared in issue:
763 - 18 February 2009
Allianz SpA (formerly Riunione Adriatica Di Sicurta SpA) and Ors v West Tankers Inc (The “Front Comor”) – Case C-185/07 – European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) (V Skouris, President, P Jann, CWA Timmermans, A Rosas, K Lenaerts and A Ó Caoimh, Presidents of Chambers, P Kuris, E Juhász,– G Arestis, A Borg Barthet, J Kluãka, E Levits and L Bay Larsen, Judges, K Kokott A-G) – 10 February 2009
(2009) 763 LMLN 3
The vessel Front Comor was chartered by Erg Petroli SpA under an Asbatankvoy charter containing a London arbitration clause. In August 2000 the Front Comor collided with Erg’s oil jetty at Syracuse. Erg’s insurers paid..
Online Published Date:
16 February 2009
Appeared in issue:
763 - 18 February 2009