Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The claimant shipper claimed damages from the defendant shipowners for loss of the goods after discharge from the defendants’ vessels. The shipowners had delivered the goods after discharge against forged bills of lading. The claimant said..

The claimant cargo interests brought three actions against the owners of the vessel Starsin in respect of damage to their cargo of timber and plywood. The owners said that they were not parties to the bill of lading contracts. In relation to the..

In this collision action the judge said that both parties had engaged the services of a large range of experts, and that in the event, the residual differences of opinion had been of a very small compass. The parties and the Court had derived..

The plaintiff charterers commenced proceedings and arrested the vessel Tavros at Vancouver in order to force security for any arbitration award which might arise out of existing arbitration in New York. Having obtained security in the form of a..

The vessel Solon was chartered on the Sugar Charterparty 1969 for a voyage from Paranagua, Brazil to Algiers with a cargo of sugar. Clause 28 of the charterparty was entitled 'Strikes and Force Majeure', and provided: 'Strikes or lockouts of men, or..

The vessel Goodpal was chartered on the NYPE form. The time charterers sub-chartered the vessel for a time charter trip from South America to China on similar terms to those of the head charter. Clause 8 of the head charter provided: 'That the..

A cargo of bagged rice was carried from Bangkok to Lagos on the defendant's vessel Hai Hing under six bills of lading, all dated 15 May 1997. The bills were on the Congenbill form, 1978 edition. The Congenbill form stated on its front that it was..