Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter
Belship Navigation Inc v Sealift Inc (The ‘Huntsville’) -Before Jack Berg, Richard A Zimmerman and Henry E Engelbrecht (Chair) - 26 February 1998
Vessel time-chartered under illegal contract - Whether time-chartered owners entitled to restitution damages to compensate for partial performance of the charter
The registered owners of the vessel
Huntsville
were Huntsville Navigation Headowning Co Ltd of Malta. They chartered the vessel to Seabon Holding Corporation of Panama (‘the
disponent owners’. The disponent owners in turn time-chartered the vessel to Belship Navigation Inc of Monrovia. Belship in
turn time-chartered the vessel under the NYPE form to Sealift Inc to perform one lighterage voyage of about 30 days duration
with 15,000 MT of bulk wheat from Assab anchorage to Massawa, Ethiopia.