Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

In September 1999 the vessel Cape Providence was on her way from Brazil to China with a cargo of iron ore when she suffered serious structural damage in the South Indian Ocean. The defendant salvage company learned that the vessel was in..

The plaintiff cargo owners and the owners of the vessel Mariana entered into a booking note in the standard "Conline" form in relation to the carriage of the plaintiffs' cargo of telegraph poles from Nova Scotia to Syria. The relevant part of the..

In the early morning hours of 5 November 1997 the vessel Kure, an ocean-going bulk carrier, was loading its cargo holds with wood chips at a dock located in Humboldt Bay, California. As the vessel shifted along the dock, to fill additional holds, it..

The vessel Glorious Rena was time-chartered by head owners to Koch Carbon Inc ("Koch) under a charter which required redelivery to take place on or "about" 31 July 2000. The head charter did not define the word "about". On 31 December 1999 Koch..

The defendant sellers sold the claimant buyers 25,000 metric tonnes of gasoil. Clause 10 of the contract provided that the quantity and quality of the cargo was: "... to be determined by a mutually agreed independent inspector at the loading..

Shipowners wished to appeal an arbitration award which was published on 23 January 2001. Both parties to the arbitration were entered in the same P & I Club, and a solicitor employed by the Club had acted for the charterers in the arbitration. ..

The claimant ("the buyer"), an Isle of Man company with no substantial assets, was the assignee of a shipbuilding contract. The shipbuilder ("the builder") had agreed to build a chemical tanker for US$38.5 million. Stage payments were to be made..