Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

SPC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sohio, entered into a tanker chartering programme in 1976 and in 1977 to enable Sohio to move Alaskan crude oil to U.S. West Coast markets and, in the case of any surplus, through the Panama Canal to Caribbean,..

The House of Lords has dismissed the ITF’s appeal in this case. (For the facts, see LMLN 81 - 9 December 1982 and LMLN 57 - 7 January 1982.) Their Lordships agreed with the Court of Appeal and Parker J. that the ITF’s actions in..

On 6 January 1983 the plaintiff’s vessel Vasso caught fire in the course of a voyage from Valencia to Kuwait. Salvage services were rendered under a Lloyd’s Open Form and in due course an arbitrator was appointed. The cargo owners..

These applications arose out of two related arbitrations, both arising out of the same incident. The vessel Vimeira had suffered serious rudder damage at Rodenhuizedok in Ghent in December 1980 when manoeuvering at the dock entrance with a pilot..

The vessel Anangel Friendship was voyage chartered on 10 September 1980 to carry cargo from Bandar Mahshahr in Iran to a Mediterranean port. Clause 8 of the charterparty in typed form read as follows: War Risk insurance and trapping up to present..

The vessel was chartered on a Gencon form for the carriage of a cargo of min-max 1,700 tonnes of cargo from Portugal to the United Kingdom. The freight was described in box 13 as D.fl.65,500 lump sum - fios and in box 13 it was stated that freight..