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Transfield Shipping Inc v Chiping Xinfa Huayu Alumina Co Ltd – QBD (Com Ct)(Christopher Clarke J) – 22 December 2009
Transfield Shipping Inc (“Transfield”) was a Panamanian corporation and a shipping company whose activities were based in Hong Kong. Chiping was an aluminium importer based in the People’s Republic of China. Transfield contended..
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05 February 2010
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Habas Sinai Tibbi Gazlar Isthisal Endustri AS v Sometal SAL – QBD (Com Ct)(Christopher Clarke J) – 18 December 2009
This was an application by Habas Sinai ve Tibbi Gazlar Isthisal Endustri AS (“Habas”), a Turkish company, under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996, to set aside an arbitration award determining that the tribunal had jurisdiction to..
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05 February 2010
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Perforaciones Exploracion Y Produccion and Ors v Maritimas Mexicanas SA DE CV – US Court of Appeals (5th Circuit)(Benavides, Dennis and Elrod Ct JJ) – 9 December 2009
On 31 March 2004 the defendant’s supply vessel Isla Azteca allided with the first plaintiff’s mobile operating drilling unit, the Totonaca, in the Bay of Campeche, some 45 miles off the Mexican coast. Both the plaintiff and the..
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05 February 2010
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The “Catur Samudra” – High Court of Singapore (Steven Chong JC) – 15 January 2010
The plaintiff was the registered owner of the vessel Mahakam. The defendant (“HIT”) was an Indonesian corporation. On 11 December 2007 the plaintiff purchased the Mahakam from Heritage Maritime Ltd SA (“Heritage”) for..
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05 February 2010
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Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Bermuda) Ltd v BP Shipping Ltd – Court of Appeal (Laws, Thomas and Wilson LJJ – 21 December 2009
The claimant had managed the defendant’s vessels over a 20 year period since 1987. On 1 July 1994, at a time when the defendant owned 17 vessels, the parties entered into a new agreement whereby the claimant provided crew management services..
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18 February 2010
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789 - 19 February 2010
Global Process Systems Inc and Anr v Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad (The “Cendor MOPU”) - Court of Appeal (Waller, Carnwath and Patten LJJ) – 17 December 2009
In November 2005 the oil rig Cendor MOPU, owned by the claimants, was being carried on a barge round the Cape of Good Hope with its legs elevated in the air above the deck. Fatigue cracking, caused by the repeated bending of the legs under the..
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18 February 2010
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789 - 19 February 2010
London Arbitration 1/10
The vessel was chartered on the Synacomex form for a voyage from Odessa with a cargo of wheat to Djen Djen or Bejaia, freight being payable at $16.50 per mt, and for cargo to be discharged at 3,000 mt per weather working day of 24 consecutive..
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18 February 2010
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789 - 19 February 2010
AS Klaveness Chartering v Pioneer Freight Futures Co Ltd and Anr – QBD (Com Ct)(Christopher Clarke J) – 18 December 2009
Between 2006 and June 2008 the claimant (“Klaveness”) concluded a number of forward freight agreements (“FFA contracts”) between it and the first defendant (“PFF”). Each contract was subject to the 1992 version..
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18 February 2010
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789 - 19 February 2010