Marine insurance - Customs regulations

(Sunport Shipping Ltd v Atkin, The Kleovoulos of Rhodes [2002] EWHC 235 (Comm))

The issue in the second of the seizure cases, Sunport Shipping Ltd v Atkin, The Kleovoulos of Rhodes [2002] EWHC 235 (Comm), was a different part of clause 4.1.5, the exclusion in the Institute War and Strikes Clauses. As was seen in the above discussion of Svenska Handelsbanken AB v Dandridge [2002] EWCA Civ 577, that clause excludes seizure by reason of ‘arrest, restraint, detainment, confiscation or expropriation under quarantine regulations or by reason of infringement of any customs or trading regulations’. In Sunport , the words under consideration were ‘customs regulations’.