Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

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 management services..

In November 2005 the oil rig Cendor MOPU, owned by the claimants, was being carried on a barge round the Cape of Good Hope with its legs elevated in the air above the deck. Fatigue cracking, caused by the repeated bending of the legs under the..

The vessel was chartered on the Synacomex form for a voyage from Odessa with a cargo of wheat to Djen Djen or Bejaia, freight being payable at $16.50 per mt, and for cargo to be discharged at 3,000 mt per weather working day of 24 consecutive..

Between 2006 and June 2008 the claimant (“Klaveness”) concluded a number of forward freight agreements (“FFA contracts”) between it and the first defendant (“PFF”). Each contract was subject to the 1992 version..