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Sembawang Shipyard Ltd. v. M/V Charger and another - U.S. District Ct. (Eastern District of Louisiana) (Sear J.) - 16 August 1989
The plaintiff was a Singapore corporation. The defendant vessel was registered in Liberia and owned by the second defendant, a Liberian corporation.
The plaintiff repaired the vessel in Singapore between March and August 1987 but had not been fully..
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07 October 1989
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259 - 07 October 1989
20/89
On 26 May 1971 the claimants chartered a vessel, then under construction, for a period of 10 years, 2 months more or less in the claimants’ option. The ship was delivered under the charter on 14 June 1974. Acordingly, the claimants had the..
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07 October 1989
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259 - 07 October 1989
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Disputes arose under the War Risks Clause of a time charter. The relevant clause provided:
- 16. (a) Vessel shall not be required without the consent of owner, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, to enter any port of zone which is involved in..
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07 October 1989
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259 - 07 October 1989
22/89
The vessel was chartered under the N.Y.P.E. form, clause 18 of which gave the owners a lien “upon all cargoes . . . for any amounts due under this charter . . .”
One of the issues in this arbitration was whether clause 18 effectively..
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07 October 1989
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23/89
The vessel was time chartered on the N.Y.P.E. form. The charterers ordered the ship to proceed to Houston, emphasizing that the holds had to be perfectly clean and ready for loading grain. After the vessel’s arrival at Houston local grain..
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07 October 1989
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24/89
The vessel was chartered on the N.Y.P.E. form. During loading the vessel was delayed (as the arbitrators found) as a result of bad stowage caused by negligence of the stevedores and a failure by the master and officers to exercise a proper and..
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07 October 1989
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259 - 07 October 1989
J. Lauritzen A.S. v. Wijsmuller B.V. (The Dan King) - Court of Appeal (Dillon & Bingham L.JJ.) - 12 October 1989
Wijsmuller contracted with Lauritzen to transport a drilling rig (the Dan King
) from Japan to Rotterdam between June and August 1981. The carriage was to be performed by using a “transportation unit” defined as meaning “Super..
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21 October 1989
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260 - 21 October 1989
Medway Packaging Ltd. v. Meurer Maschinen G.m.b.H. & Co. - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Hobhouse J.) - 11 October 1989
The plaintiffs, an English company, entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with the Defendants, a company in the Federal Republic of Germany. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants were in repudiatory breach of that agreement by giving..
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21 October 1989
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260 - 21 October 1989
H. Smith Packing Corporation and others v. Hub Forwarding Co. Inc. and others (The Irving Timer) - Federal Court of Appeal (Heald, Hugessen & Desjardins JJ.A.) - 23 June 1989
The plaintiffs claimed damages from the defendant, Hub Forwarding Co. Inc., for negligently misrepresenting the conditions upon which the cargo was to be carried aboard the vessel Irving Timber
, thereby causing the plaintiffs loss and damage.
The..
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21 October 1989
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260 - 21 October 1989