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Nedship Bank NV v The Owners of the ship ‘Zoodotis’ - Federal Court (Trial Div)(Hargrave P) - 24 March 1999
The vessel Zoodotis
was ordered to be sold by the Court. The highest bid was US$4,950,000 from a Dutch company, but there was a problem getting the balance of the purchase price transferred to Vancouver by the stipulated date. The Dutch company..
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02 September 1999
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517 - 02 September 1999
Richardson International Ltd v Zao RPK ‘Starodubskoe’ and others (The ‘Chickacheva’) - Federal Court (Trial Div)(Hargrave P) - 16 April 1999
The defendants, owners of the vessel Chickacheva,
applied for an order requiring the plaintiff to post security for costs. The security sought included the cost of bail which had been posted to release the Chickacheva
from arrest. The bail was in..
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02 September 1999
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517 - 02 September 1999
Riva Stahl GmbH and Ors v Combined Atlantic Carriers GmbH and ors (The ‘Bergen Sea’) - Federal Court (Trial Div) - 17 May 1999
The plaintiff cargo owners claimed damages from shipowners in respect of damage to a cargo of steel coils carried on board the vessel Bergen Sea
from Germany to Houston, Texas. the damage was discovered upon discharge of the cargo at Houston on 16..
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02 September 1999
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517 - 02 September 1999
Transamerica Leasing Inc v The Institute of London Underwriters - United States District Ct (SD Florida)(Moore DJ) - 6 May 1998
The plaintiff, Transamerica, a lessor of ocean cargo containers, entered into various lease agreements with a Venezuelan shipping company (‘CAVN’), and was the assignee of all rights under certain lease agreements with Tiphook Container..
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02 September 1999
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517 - 02 September 1999
Tivat Shipping & Investment BV v Associated Transport Line Inc (The ‘Trinity Square’) - Michael K Hope, Arbitrator - 8 April 1999
The vessel Trinity Square
was chartered on the NYPE form as amended for the carriage of cargo from Panama City, Florida, to Trinidad. Disputes arose from five voyages performed by the vessel between 29 to 4 September 1997. At the conclusion of the..
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02 September 1999
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517 - 02 September 1999
Danae Air Transport SA v Air Canada - Court of Appeal (Kennedy, Ward and Tuckey LJJ) - 29 July 1999
An arbitration tribunal had made a final award ordering the claimants, Danae Air Transport, to pay the costs of the award from 15 August 1995 and Air Canada’s costs from that date. The arbitrators made that costs award because they thought..
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02 September 1999
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517 - 02 September 1999
Gray v Stead (The ‘Progress’) - Court of Appeal (Lord Bingham of Cornhill LCJ, and Otton and Robert Walker LJJ) - 20 July 1999
This was an action for damages brought by the widow and administratrix of the estate of Mr Alan Gray who died on 27 July 1994 in the North Sea in the course of his employment by the defendant as a fisherman on board the motor fishing vessel Progress..
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16 September 1999
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518 - 16 September 1999
Universal Africa Lines (Disponent Owner of the ‘Stamatina P’) v E D & F Man Cocoa Inc - New York Arbitration - Before Jack Berg; Klaus C J Mordhorst; Donald Zubrod (Chair) - 15 April 1999
The vessel Stamatina P
was voyage-chartered on the Gencon form for the carriage of a cargo of bagged cocoa from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On 2 January the vessel arrived at Abidjan in ballast and anchored in the roads..
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16 September 1999
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518 - 16 September 1999
Ocean Wide Shipping Corporation (as owners of the M/V ‘Punica’) v Canadian Forest Navigation Co Ltd - New York Arbitration - Before Jack Berg (dissenting); A J Siciliano; Stephen H Busch (Chair) - 26 February 1999
The vessel Punica
was time-chartered on the NYPE form, and sub-time-chartered for a trip on substantially identical terms. The sub-time-charterer concluded a voyage charter on the Gencon form with Duferco SA for the carriage of a cargo of steel..
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16 September 1999
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518 - 16 September 1999
Southampton Container Terminals Ltd v Hansa Schiffahrtsgesellschaft mbH (The ‘Maersk Colombo’) - QBD (Admlty Ct)(David Steel J) - 20 July 1999
In the course of berthing at berth 204 at the claimant’s container terminal at Southampton in heavy weather, the defendant’s vessel Maersk Colombo
damaged a shoreside crane beyond repair. The claimant brought proceedings against the..
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16 September 1999
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518 - 16 September 1999
London Arbitration 15/99
The vessel, a multipurpose general cargo vessel of 16,000 mts deadweight, fitted with a tweendeck in each of her four holds, was chartered on an amended Gencon form for the carriage of a cargo of soyabean meal in bulk from Brazil to Antalya and/or..
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30 September 1999
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519 - 30 September 1999
London Arbitration 16/99
The vessel was chartered on the NYPE form as amended for a trip via the Baltic to the Far East or, in charterers’ option, via the US Gulf with bulk urea. She was delivered on 27 January 1996. On 5 February 1996 the charterers purported to..
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30 September 1999
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519 - 30 September 1999
London Arbitration 17/99
The vessel was under construction when she was chartered by disponent owners to the charterers on the NYPE form as amended for a period of minimum 15/17 months in charterers’ option. The standard NYPE form was the subject of many detailed..
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30 September 1999
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519 - 30 September 1999