Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter
Soufflet Negoce v Bunge SA – Court of Appeal (Longmore, Wilson and Toulson LJJ) – 13 October 2010
Sale of goods – FOB contract for sale of feed barley – GAFTA Form 49 – Vessel to be presented “in readiness to load” – Whether vessel had to be ready to load in sense required to serve notice of readiness
A contract was concluded on GAFTA Form 49 by which the sellers sold to the buyers a consignment of 15,000 tons of feed barley
FOB Nikotera, Ukraine. Delivery was to be “Between 9-22 October 2006 at Buyers’ call both dates included (No extension).”