This is the third guest article written by L M Mohamed Ismail1. We thank Ismail for this wonderful article and look forward to seeing more such contributions from him and others. History reveals that the first form of insurance along…
Of late, we have been seeing more enquiries in relation to Freight Forwarders / NVO’s (“SP”) clients being wound up / liquidated1. SPs are therefore concerned and wish to ascertain how they could recover their unpaid charges. This situation, perhaps,…
Bunkersi was initially used to denote storage containers for coal used in Steamships to feed furnaces on ships to generate steam. As coal was the original fuel for steamships, the word has now become synonymous with fuel used in ships.…
The Middle East Branch of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers conducted a Masterclass on Bills of Lading by way of a webinar conducted on 28th Nov and 12th Dec 2020. The author was fortunate to attend the webinar and to…
TT Club recently published an article on “Mitigating Risks of uncollected cargo”1 and which lists ways to identify and prevent this risk. The suggestions made in the article are noteworthy and therefore we would recommend all container operators to consider the…
The Charterers P&I recently published a guidei on What limits of liability to purchase for Charterers Liability Insurance. This set us thinking on similar terms for a Transport Liability Policy (“TLP”). While the TLP encompasses various functions of a Transport Operator…
The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) recently established a register for the voluntary registrationi of NVOCC’sii involved in container shipping. In addition, the IMB launched a course, the IMB NVOCC Bill of Lading Certificate (“NBL”) targeted at the NVOCC’siii. To celebrate…
Webinar conducted by Council for National and International Commercial Arbitration and CNICA Mediation Centre on 18th Sep 2020 and which can be viewed at
We were recently advised that the Indian Govt is in the process of updating its law1 with respect to the Multimodal Transport of Goods. We had, in our earlier article “Unintended Consequences of MTGA 1993”2 commented on the prevailing act,…
This article discusses the common issues related to freight set-offs in the Indian context.