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Tor Line AB v. Alltrans Group of Canada Ltd. (The TFL Prosperity - Court of Appeal (Sir John Donaldson M.R., Dillon L.J. and Sir Denys Buckley) - 30 March 1983
The Court of Appeal has disagreed with the Umpire and the Judge at first instance as to the effect of clause 13 of the Baltime charterparty. Clause 13 gives a wide exception in favour of owners. It provides:
The owners only to be responsible for..
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14 April 1983
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Tate & Lyle Industries Ltd. v. GLC & others - House of Lords (Lord Diplock, Lord Keith, Lord Roskill, Lord Bridge and Lord Templeman) - 24 March 1983
For many years Tate & Lyle had operated a sugar refinery on the north bank of the Thames up-stream of the Woolwich ferry. In 1922 the Port of London Authority (PLA) authorised Tate & Lyle to construct a jetty, known as the refined sugar..
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14 April 1983
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Pindos Shipping Corporation v. Raven (The Mata Hari) - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Bingham J.) - 2 March 1983
The plaintiff owners of the 32 ft motor yacht Mata Hari
claimed against the defendant underwriters under a marine insurance policy after the vessel had sunk at her moorings in Piraeus during a storm. The underwriters (representing syndicates 691..
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14 April 1983
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The vessel was chartered on a Baltimore Grain form to carry a cargo of wheat from the United States to Bombay. Clause 26 provided:
Vessel to tender notice of readiness to discharge to charterer or his agents during ordinary office hours on a weekday..
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14 April 1983
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90 - 14 April 1983
Blackshaws (Pty.) Ltd. v. Constantia Insurance Co. Ltd. - Appellate Division 1983 (1) S.A.L.R. 120
The appellant was a South African printer and lithographer. In 1979 he purchased a printing machine from Norway and effected a policy of marine insurance with the respondent in Johannesburg to cover the machine for its voyage to South Africa. The..
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14 April 1983
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90 - 14 April 1983
SPC Shipping Inc. v. Maritime Overseas Corporation (The Overseas Washington - 5 April 1983
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,..
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28 April 1983
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91 - 28 April 1983
Merkur Island Shipping v. Laughton and ors. (The Hoegh Apapa) - House of Lords - 21 April 1983
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..
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28 April 1983
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The Vasso - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Lloyd J.) - 29 March 1983
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..
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28 April 1983
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91 - 28 April 1983
Interbulk Ltd. v. Aiden Shipping Co. Ltd. (The Vimeira) - Q.B.D. - (Com.Ct.) (Lloyd J.) - 8 March 1983
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..
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28 April 1983
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Filia Compania Naviera v. Cameli & Co. (The Anangel Friendship) - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Leggatt J.) - 18 February 1983
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..
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28 April 1983
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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..
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28 April 1983
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91 - 28 April 1983