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Pietro Cingolani SAS v. Pearl Marin Shipping A/B (The General Valdes) - Court of Appeal (Lord Denning M.R., Ackner L.J. and Sir Denys Buckley) - 21 May 1981
The parties had submitted a charterparty dispute to arbitration. The arbitrators disagreed and an umpire was appointed. The umpire’s award was sent to one of the arbitrators in the same envelope as a separate document headed “Reasons for..
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International Sea Tankers Inc. of Liberia v. Hemisphere Shipping Co. of Hong Kong - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Goff J.) - 21 May 1981
The vessel Wenjiang
, under time charter to the applicants, became trapped in the Shatt-Al-Arab waterway as a result of the Iraq/Iran war. The sole arbitrator found that the charterparty became frustrated on 24 November 1980. Charterers had..
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Hayn Roman & Co. S.A. v. Cominter (U.K.) Ltd. - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Robert Goff J.) - 4 June 1981
The respondents contracted to sell Bolivian coffee to the appellants under a contract dated 8 October 1979 which provided for arbitration in London. A dispute arose as to whether shipments had been made within the contract period and the matter was..
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Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. v. Viafiel Compania Naviera S.A. - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Mocatta J.) - 21 May 1981
The respondents had contracted to buy a vessel from Hitachi. Disputes arose between the parties which had been referred to arbitration. This summons before Mr. Justice Mocatta concerned security for costs in that pending arbitration.
Hitachi were..
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Alaska Trainship Corporation v. The Pacific Pilotage Authority - Supreme Court of Canada (Laskin C.J., Ritchie, Dickson, Beetz, Estey, McIntyre and Chouinard JJ.) - 19 March 1981
Pilotage Regulations promulgated under the Canadian Pilotage Act 1971 established five compulsory pilotage areas. Section 9(1) of the Regulations stipulated that ships over a certain tonnage would be subject to compulsory pilotage in those areas...
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Hosei Kaiun Shoji Co. Ltd. v. The Canadian Tug Seaspan Monarch; Seaspan International Ltd. v. M/V Dian and Hosei Kaiun Shoji Co. Ltd. - U.S. District Court, District of Oregon (District Judge Burns)
In this collision action the Court considered the interpretation of rule 34(d) of the 1972 Regulations, which reads as follows:
When vessels in sight of one another are approaching each other and from any cause either vessel fails to understand the..
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Royal Exchange Assurance of America Inc. and Lee Torgerson Machinery Co. v. American President Lines and Port of Tacoma - U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington - 27 February 1981
T. Co. shipped rock-crushing machinery from Karachi to Tacoma, Washington in the defendants’ vessel. Damage was caused to the machinery partly by the carrier’s stevedores on discharge and partly by the Tacoma port authority employees who..
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