MAERSK A/S V SREE RAYALASEEMA HI-STRENGTH HYPO LIMITED (MV "MAERSK SEOUL")

[2026] EWHC 2005 (Comm), King's Bench Division, Commercial Court, Peter MacDonald Eggers KC (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court), 28 July 2026

Contracts (carriage) – Bills of lading – Calcium hypochlorite violently decomposing in containers on board and on shore – Damages – Anti-suit injunction – International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG)

During shipment on board the claimant Maersk's vessel Maersk Seoul, the defendant Sree's calcium hypochlorite tablets had violently decomposed. Further similar shipments in progress on board another Maersk vessel were discharged in Jebel Ali for cross-stuffing into reefer containers and in the process there was a further violent decomposition event, inside a stuffed but not shut reefer container.