Vinnlustodin HF and Another v Sea Tank Shipping AS (The “Aqasia”) – QBD (Comm Ct) (Sir Jeremy Cooke, sitting as a Judge of the High Court) [2016] EWHC 2514 (Comm) – 14 October 2016

Carriage of goods by sea – Package limitation – 1924 Hague Rules, article IV rule 5 – Whether package limitation capable of applying to bulk cargo – Meaning of “unit”

The defendant was the disponent owner of the vessel Aqasia. The claimants were the shippers and the insurers of a cargo of 2,000 tons of fishoil in bulk carried at a lump sum freight. The contract of carriage was contained in and/or evidenced by a charterparty which incorporated the 1924 Hague Rules.