The Aegean Sun - Supreme Court - SALR December 1982 (4)

Admiralty jurisdiction - Whether cargo “carried into” port

The plaintiffs were consignees of a cargo of rice carried on board the defendants’ vessel Aegean Sun for delivery at Abidjan. En route the ship and cargo had been damaged and the ship forced to put into Cape Town for repairs. Part of the rice was dumped, part sold to salvage buyers, and the undamaged portion was transhipped to another vessel (the Maria Elena T ) and conveyed to Abidjan, that rice being likewise damaged en route.