Connect Shipping Inc and Another v Sveriges Angfartygs Assurans Forening (The Swedish Club) and Others (The "Renos") - Court of Appeal (Sir Geoffrey Vos C, Simon and Hamblen LJJ) [2018] EWCA Civ 230 - 19 February 2018

Marine insurance - Fire in vessel's engine room - Owners giving notice of abandonment five months later - Whether NOA given too late - Whether owners entitled to be indemnified on constructive total loss basis - Whether owners entitled to recover costs incurred prior to NOA - Whether SCOPIC liability to be taken into account

On 23 August 2012 a fire broke out in the engine room of the vessel Renos. The vessel was off the Egyptian coast in the Red Sea and was laden. The claimants were the owners and managers of the vessel (the owners). The insurers were insurers of the vessel under hull and machinery policies (the insurers).