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Tradigrain SA and ors v King Diamond Shipping SA (The ‘Spiros C’) - QBD (Com Ct)(Colman J) - 27 April 1999
The vessel Spiros C
had been time-chartered by the defendant owners to Mercator Marine on the NYPE form and sub-chartered to Tradigrain Shipping for the carriage of a cargo of Hungarian milling wheat from Constanza to Morocco. The bills of lading..
Online Published Date:
08 July 1999
Appeared in issue:
513 - 08 July 1999
Azov Shipping Co v Baltic Shipping Co - QBD (Com Ct)(Colman J) - 11 May 1999
In December 1992 an agreement was entered into by at least nine shipping corporations, all of which had been state-owned and state-operated regional entities under the Soviet Union. The agreement (‘the GUCA’) was about the general use..
Online Published Date:
08 July 1999
Appeared in issue:
513 - 08 July 1999
The Owners, Master and Crew of the Tug ‘Hamtun’ v The Owners of the ship ‘St John’ - QBD (Admlty Ct)(Peter Gross QC sitting as a deputy judge of the QBD) - 11 March 1999
The vessel St John,
an OBO of 156,109 DWT, was at a lay up berth in Southampton Water, England prior to departing for the Far East where she was to be scrapped. On the morning of 5 April 1993, in high winds, the stern mooring wire parted. At 0700..
Online Published Date:
08 July 1999
Appeared in issue:
513 - 08 July 1999
Nordstern Allgemeine Versicherungs AG v Internav Ltd - Court of Appeal (Kennedy, Otton and Waller LJJ) - 25 May 1999
The issue in this appeal was whether the Court had jurisdiction under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 to order that a non-party should personally pay the costs of an action in the absence of any inter partes order for costs.
Held,
that B..
Online Published Date:
08 July 1999
Appeared in issue:
513 - 08 July 1999
SC Rolnay Sea Star SRL v The Owners and/or the Demise Charterers of the Ship “Bumbesti” - QBD (Com Ct)(Aikens J) - 22 June 1999
The vessel Dacia
was chartered under a bareboat charter which was governed by Romanian law and provided that any disputes should be resolved by arbitration in Romania. Disputes arose under the charter and were referred to arbitration in Romania...
Online Published Date:
22 July 1999
Appeared in issue:
514 - 22 July 1999
The “Sea Maas” - QBD (Admlty Ct)(Rix J) - 10 June 1999
The claimants were the Italian consignees of cargo of steel coils carried on the defendants’ vessel Sea Maas
from Newport, Wales to Anzio and La Spezia in Italy. The claimants alleged wetting damage to the cargo. The defendants were domiciled..
Online Published Date:
22 July 1999
Appeared in issue:
514 - 22 July 1999
Royal Bank of Scotland v The “Kimisis III” - Federal Ct (Trial Div)(Hargrave P) - 8 February 1999
This was a motion by a fleet mortgagee of the vessel Kimisis III
for an order that Noga Commodities (Canada) Inc (“Noga”), who had filed a caveat against the release of the Kimisis III
and who was the owner of a cargo of 37,663 metric..
Online Published Date:
22 July 1999
Appeared in issue:
514 - 22 July 1999
Fournier and Ors v The Ship “Margaret Z” - High Court (Fisher J) - 1 April 1999
The vessel Margaret Z
was arrested at the instigation of the Master and crew claiming wages, and was sold for approximately $9 million. A question of priority over the proceeds of sale arose between the mortgagee, a supplier of fuel (“Clipper..
Online Published Date:
22 July 1999
Appeared in issue:
514 - 22 July 1999