GVI Logistics Ltd v Goat NZ Ltd – High Court of New Zealand (Fogarty J) – 7 December 2011

Carriage of goods – Package limitation – Shelf life of perishable cargo reduced by reason of incorrect container temperature setting – Whether carrier entitled to rely on limitation provisions in New Zealand Carriage of Goods Act 1979

Goat NZ Ltd (“Goat”) exported 648 cartons of goat meat to Japan by sea in May 2009. It engaged GVI Logistics, as a freight forwarder, to arrange transport of the cartons.