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Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Stena Bulk AB and Others v Copley and Others QBD (Admlty Ct) (Jervis Kay QC, Admiralty Registrar) – 3 December 2014

Admiralty practice – Stakeholders – Bunker suppliers becoming insolvent – Ship operators facing competing claims for price of bunkers supplied – Whether ship operators entitled to rely on “Stakeholders” rule to pay money into court to secure claims and prevent vessels being arrested
Online Published Date:  22 December 2014
Appeared in issue:  915 - 29 December 2014

Teekay Tankers Ltd v STX Offshore & Shipping Co – QBD (Comm Ct) (Hamblen J) [2014] EWHC 3612 (Comm) – 6 November 2014

Practice – Claim form – Service – Buyer bringing claim against shipbuilder for breach of Option Agreement – Whether claim form validly served in England – Forum non conveniens – Companies Act 2006, section 1139(2)
Online Published Date:  22 December 2014
Appeared in issue:  915 - 29 December 2014

HBC Hamburg Bulk Carriers GmbH & Co KG v Huyton Inc (The "Glory Sanye") - QBD (Comm Ct) (Teare J) [2014] EWHC 4176 (Comm) - 12 December 2014

Charterparty - Addendum - Disponent owners chartering vessel for single voyage - Vessel unable to discharge cargo because of absence of receivers - Parties agreeing addendum substituting different discharge port - Charterers agreeing toindemnify disponent owners against losses and expenses arising from charterers' failure to discharge cargo - Whether charterers bound to indemnify disponent owners in respect of costs incurred in transiting Suez Canal
Online Published Date:  22 December 2014
Appeared in issue:  915 - 29 December 2014

London Arbitration 20/14

Demurrage – Notice of readiness – Whether valid – Whether vessel legally ready to discharge part cargo – Whether laytime suspended due to “fault” on part of owners – Point of time at which laytime resumed
Online Published Date:  22 December 2014
Appeared in issue:  915 - 29 December 2014

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