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PST Energy 7 Shipping LLC and Another v O W Bunker Malta Ltd and Another (The "Res Cogitans") - QBD (Comm Ct) (Males J) [2015] EWHC 2022 (Comm) - 14 July 2015
Contract - Supply of bunkers - Retention of title clause - Whether bunker supply contract was a contract of sale within meaning of Sale of Goods Act 1979
On
31 October 2014 the owners of the vessel
Res
Cogitans
placed an order for the supply of bunkers with OW Bunker Malta Ltd
(OWBM) at a price of US$443,800. The order was confirmed by OWBM’s Sales Order
Confirmation of the same date, which named OWBM as “Seller” and gave a delivery
date of 3 or 4 November 2014.