MV Pacific Pearl Co Ltd v NYK Orpheus Corporation and Another - [2022] EWHC 2828 (Admlty), KBD (Admlty Ct) (Mr Justice Andrew Baker, sitting with Captain Roger Barker and Captain Aseem Hashmi, nautical assessors from Trinity House) - 11 November 2022

Admiralty - Collision - Rules of the sea - Apportionment of liability - Merchant Shipping Act 1995, section 187

On 16 July 2018 there was a northbound Suez Canal convoy. At the head of the convoy was Al Manamah, a large container ship, leading a small Egyptian military ship ENS Sagam Shalateen and two very large container ships NYK Falcon and NYK Orpheus. On that morning NYK Orpheus ran into Panamax Alexander in the Suez canal. Panamax Alexander had been damaged in a collision the previous day, the collision having been found by Teare J to be Panamax Alexander's fault ( The Owners of the Vessel "Sakizaya Kalon" v The Owners of the Vessel "Panamax Alexander" [2021] 2 Lloyd's Rep 70).