WEALMOOR LTD V KLM CIA REAL HOLANDESA DE AVIACION AND ANOTHER

[2025] EWHC 1706 (Comm), High Court of Justice, London Circuit Commercial Court, David Elvin KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, 11 July 2025

Carriage (air) – Damage to consignment of asparagus – Meaning of "event" – Inherent vice – Damage to packaging – Montreal Convention 1999, articles 1, 10 and 18

The claimant consignee sought damages from the KLM defendants in respect of a shipment of asparagus under an air waybill from Lima in Peru to Amsterdam and then by truck to a warehouse at London Heathrow.