Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The first defendant, a Scottish company, owned the vessel Benarty which they time-chartered to the second defendant, an Indian corporation. The nineteen plaintiffs in this action alleged that cargo had been damaged during the course of a voyage in..

The plaintiff owners of the vessel Satya Kamal time-chartered her to P. In the course of that time charter the vessel loaded timber in Finland under a number of bills of lading of which the defendants became holders and the receivers of the cargo...

The issue was whether sub-charterers were entitled to rescind the charterparty on the ground that the charterers had misrepresented the effect of the head charter. The particular type of misrepresentation in this case was a rather unusual one. The..

The defendants, Scindia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. of Bombay, owned the vessel Jalakrishna . The plaintiff was an Indian seaman who claimed damages for personal injuries received during an accident at sea. The accident occurred during rough weather..

Universal Union Trading Co. Pte. Ltd. of Singapore (the shippers) shipped a cargo of automotive spare parts on board the vessel Kota Pahlawan for carriage from Singapore to Indonesia. The goods were to be delivered to the order of the Chase..