Packages, units, containers and The Maersk Tangier

AP Møller-Maersk A/S, trading as “Maersk Line” v Kyokuyo Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 778The facts The respondent Kyokuyo claimed as the receiver of three container loads of frozen tuna shipped at Cartagena in Spain for carriage by the appellant Maersk Line to Japan.

The cargo in the three containers (which were made up as Container A, Container B and Container C) comprised frozen bluefin tuna loins, each weighing at least 20 kg and up to 75 kg and, in the case of container A, bags of frozen bluefin tuna parts, each bag weighing 20 kg plus or minus 10 per cent.