Lloyd's Shipping & Trade Law

The Supreme Court has ruled that in calculating damages for the repudiation of a charterparty, shipowners were not obliged to give credit to charterers for sale proceeds made by a sale in opportune market conditions. Reversing the decision of the Court of Appeal, the highest court held that damages owed by charterers for the repudiation of the charterparty should be calculated without taking into account that benefit.

Upon request from a group of nine co-sponsoring states, the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organization at its 98th meeting in London agreed to add the issue of the regulation of unmanned ships to its work agenda. The regulatory scoping exercise will consider the extent to which the existing corpus of IMO regulations is suitable for the introduction of unmanned ships.

On 5 June 2017 seven countries – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and the Maldives – decided to cut all diplomatic ties with Qatar and impose an economic blockade against the emirate, accusing Qatar of supporting and funding extremists’ ideology and terrorist groups in the region. This article examines the legal implications of the Qatari blockade, which carries neither a UN mandate nor an Arab League one, on charterparties.

Collision This case is about two almost simultaneous collisions near the termination of East Lamma Channel Traffic Separation Scheme (“TSS”). The first was between MCC Jakarta (“J”) and Xin Nan Tai 77 (“X”) (“the first collision”), followed by a second between J and TS Singapore (“S”) (“the second collision”). Immediately beforehand, manoeuvres were performed where J overtook S (“the overtaking situation”) and X attempted to cross behind J (“the crossing situation”).