Euroleader Shipping and Trading Co. v. The Pillsbury Company (The Senicoli Sierra) - Before Stephen H. Busch, Chairman, Konstantinos L. Livanos and Lloyd C. Nelson - 20 April 1993 (S.M.A. 2966)

Whether master justified in refusing to sign bill of lading endorsed “dry and free running at time of shipment”

The vessel Senicoli Sierra was chartered under a Sugar charterparty for the carriage of a cargo of bagged sugar from Santos, Brazil to Port Said, Egypt. Whilst the cargo was being loaded, the master made five separate formal protests regarding the condition of the cargo, as many of the bags were noted to be “petrified”, torn or wet, and the longshoremen were refusing to separate damaged bags from undamaged ones before loading them.