Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Carriage of goods by sea - Alleged misdelivery after discharge - Time bar - Whether one-year limitation period under Hague-Visby Rules applied to misdelivery after discharge - Implied term

Time charterparty - Final hire accounts - Speed and consumption - LMAA Small Claims Procedure - Whether counterclaim time-barred when defence submissions served late - Whether arbitrator could adjudicate upon the counterclaim or whether it should be referred to a mutually agreed weather routing company

Charterparty - Underwater cleaning "always at Charterers' time and expense" - Whether charterers required to pay at on-hire rates for cleaning after expiry of charterparty

Charterparty - Damages for repudiatory breach - Whether a fixture made before the subject charter could or should be regarded as a substitute - Whether the earlier fixture reflected market rates at the date for assessment of losses for breach of the charterparty - Whether charterers suffered losses in relation to storage charges and penalties due to a switch of carrying vessels