Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

TICC Ltd, an English company, had a number of UK customers who acquired goods in the Far East and Hong Kong, and for whom TICC procured shipping space through two agencies in Hong Kong ('the Hong Kong shippers'). The carrier used to ship the goods..

Shipowners brought arbitration proceedings against charterers in respect of demurrage at both discharge ports (Conakry and Banjul). $132,562 was claimed at Conakry and $185,243 at Banjul. The charterers had made various payments such that whilst the..

The registered owners of the vessel Kristina Logos were Ulybel Enterprises Ltd ('Ulybel'), the sole director of which was Mr Pratas. The plaintiffs, the Neves brothers, claimed to own a 49% beneficial interest in the vessel. The vessel was seized at..

The question of law on this appeal to the High Court was "whether (in the absence of any relevant provision in the governing voyage charterparty) laytime or time on demurrage is interrupted because, while the vessel is waiting for charterers' berth..

The vessel Michael S was chartered under a trip time charter containing a London arbitration clause. The insurers of the endorsees and receivers of a cargo of sulphur alleged that the cargo had been damaged during the course of carriage between..

The second plaintiff manufactured sophisticated, delicate, computerised textile weaving machines. The first plaintiff was an American associated company of the second plaintiff which purchased the machines involved in the case. German freight..

Seabulk Transmarine Partnership Ltd ("Seabulk") wanted to build a new vessel, the Seabulk America. To build the vessel, Seabulk planned to combine parts of two separate vessels. The hulls of the two vessels were of dissimilar widths and depths, so..