China Coal Solution (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Avra Commodities Pte Ltd – Court of Appeal (Judith Prakash JA, Chao Hick Tin SJ and Woo Bih Li J) [2020] SGCA 81 – 20 August 2020

Contract – Formation – Whether business confirmation emails gave rise to concluded sale of goods contract

The defendant (China Coal) and the plaintiff (Avra) were companies involved in commodity trading. They first transacted with each other in 2015. The present dispute arose out of attempts to enter into one such transaction in March to April 2017, involving three shipments of Indonesian steam coal (the cargo).