Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The defendant sellers agreed to sell their vessel Solholt to the plaintiff buyers for $5 million. The contract was on the Norwegian Sale Form and called for delivery not later than 31 August 1979, failing which the buyers were to have a right of..

The plaintiff cargo owners in this action were allowed to extend the period of time for service of the writ by a few days even though their solicitors only obtained instructions to serve the writ some 23 days before the period for service..

The vessel Torenia was chartered to carry a cargo of 10,000 tons of sugar from Cuba to Denmark. In the course of this voyage she encountered rough weather conditions of a type which ought to have been and probably were well within the contemplation..

The plaintiffs were owners of a cargo of manganese ore which was to be shipped on the defendant’s vessel Tolmidis from Baltimore to the Far East. The bills of lading were subject to the U.S. Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1936. In January 1978..

Held , that when the vessel was flooding in the Chesapeake Bay the valves must have been in the position recorded in the inspection of 9 February 1978. Although the crew had only a short amount of time to close the valves, it should have been the..

The charterparty was on the Texacotime 2 form, the relevant clauses providing: - 3. Owner hereby lets, the charterer hereby hires, the vessel herein described for the term of [12 months, 30 days more or less, charterer’s option.] . . . 11. ...