Petroineos Manufacturing Scotland Ltd v Clydeport Operations Ltd (The “MT Ashna”) – Court of Session (Outer House) (Lord Burns) [2017] CSOH 49 – 23 March 2017

Judicial review – Conservancy charges – Whether Clyde port authority had jurisdiction to levy conservancy charges on vessel within dockyard port

Petroineos (the charterers) were the time charterers of the vessel MT Ashna. On 24 November 2014 the vessel proceeded up the Firth of Clyde thereby incurring charges levied by Clydeport Operations Ltd as the statutory port authority for the Firth of Clyde (the Port Authority) for her inward and outward passages.