Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Charterparty - Stowage - Part cargo - Whether owners or charterers responsible for arranging and paying for dunnage - Whether owners entitled to demurrage or damages for detention - Whether owners entitled to cost of arranging dunnage for part cargo

Agency – Contracts for supply of bunkers – Whether purchaser of bunkers acted as agent for owner of vessels being supplied – Whether purchaser had actual or implied authority to purchase bunkers on behalf of shipowner – Whether agency by estoppel established – Whether shipowner liable to bunker supplier for non-payment

Charterparty – Damages – Time charter wrongfully terminated by charterers – Owners concluding substitute fixture – Whether damages limited by reference to period when contract voyage would have ended

Arbitration – Jurisdiction – Disponent owners entering into sub-voyage charter – Bill of lading incorporating terms of sub-voyage charter including arbitration clause – Disponent owners bringing arbitration proceedings against shippers – Identity of carrier under bill of lading – Whether valid arbitration clause between disponent owners and shippers – Whether tribunal had substantive jurisdiction

Tort – Conversion – Damages – Whether relevant market for converted cargo