Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

By a Yacht Construction Contract dated 25 September 2008, the claimant yacht builder agreed to construct, and Shoreacres Ltd agreed to buy, a white 60 metre yacht with a hull number FB256. The price was €38 million payable in instalments, and..

Disputes arose under a time-charterparty, clause 45 of which provided: “Vessel’s holds on delivery or in Owners option at first loading port to be clean swept/washed down and dried up so as to receive Charterers intended cargoes in all..

On 19 November 2002 the oil tanker Prestige, registered in the Bahamas, sank off the coast of Spain. The Prestige discharged millions of gallons of oil into Spanish territorial waters before sinking 140 miles from the Spanish coast, causing..

The Sarah Desgagnés, a Canadian-flagged vessel, owned by Transport Desgagnés Inc (“the owners”), and under time charter to Petro-Nav Inc, was under subtime charter in the Shelltime 4 form to Maritima Fluviale Di Navigazione..

The vessel was chartered on the Sugar Charter Party 1999 form for the carriage of “a full and complete cargo of 13,100 net metric tons minimum/maximum of sugar in loose 50 kg bags” from Santos to Tartous. A court-appointed surveyor at..