Sizer Metals Pte Ltd v Chubb Insurance Singapore Ltd – High Court of Singapore – [2022] SGHC 51 (Tan Siong Thye J) – 11 March 2022

Marine insurance – Cargo insurance – Theft of cargo – Dispute as to whether theft occurred before commencement of transit or after commencement of transit – Burden of proof

Sizer Metals Pte Ltd, a Singaporean company carrying on the business of trading base metals, ordered nine shipments of tin concentrate from Excellent Mining Co Ltd, a company incorporated in Rwanda. The first five shipments were uneventful, and the drums of tin concentrate arrived in Penang safely. However, the contents of the sixth to the ninth shipments were on their arrival in Penang found to have been swapped with iron oxide.