Owners and/or Demise Charterers of “TS Singapore” v Owners and/or Demise Charterers of “Xin Nan Tai 77” and Another [2018] HKCA 299

Successive collisionsTwo collisions occurred in the early morning of 14 May 2011 near the termination of East Lamma Channel Traffic Separation Scheme (“TSS”) in Hong Kong. The first collision was between MCC Jakarta (“J”) and Xin Nan Tai 77 (“X”), and the second collision was between J and TS Singapore (“S”).

Both J and S were outbound from Hong Kong, navigating in the outbound traffic land of the Lamma Scheme on a south-easterly course. X was on a voyage from Taicang, Jiangsu Province bound for Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Prior to the first collision, she was sailing in a westerly direction in the westbound land of the Dangan Shuidao Traffic Separation Scheme (“DSTSS”).