Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Bill of lading - Cargo delivered by shipowner without production of bills of lading - Letter of Indemnity -Whether claimant bank had acquired rights under bills of lading -Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992, sections 2 and 5 - Measure of damages

Admiralty - Priority of allocation of in rem proceeds - Applicant wrongly commencing in personam subrogation proceedings before commencing in rem proceedings - Whether third-party claims should be stayed - Case management

Admiralty - Liability of fishing vessel for damage to undersea cable - Ownership of cable - Whether vessel responsible for damage - Amount of damages

Time charter - Claim for unpaid hire - Vessel sailing from Qingdao, China to Nanaimo, Canada - Whether route via Kanmon Strait was a deviation for a crew change or the safer route to avoid a storm - Whether the master was entitled not to follow the route recommended by the charterers' weather routing company - Whether the charterers were entitled to deduct hire for all time lost or only for call at Wakayama for the crew change - Whether the charterers were entitled to a deduction for underperformance in the absence of good weather days - Crane breakdowns - Whether the charterers could rely on emails from agents or only on stevedores' logs Procedure - LMAA Small Claims Procedure - Costs