Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter
The “Orinoco Star” [2014] SGHCR 19 – Singapore High Ct (Delphine Ho AR) – 6 August 2014
Admiralty practice – Time bar – Whether plaintiffs entitled to mandatory extension of two-year limitation period to bring collision action
On
20 June 2011 the plaintiffs’ vessel
Melody
and the defendants’ vessel
Orinoco Star
collided off Lagos, Nigeria. On 6 December 2013 the plaintiffs commenced
proceedings against
Orinoco Star in
Singapore and the vessel was arrested the same day.