Alternate Dispute Resolution
Webinar conducted by AMTOI on 11 April 2025
Muthu Jagannath
Muthu Jagannath is the Director of NAU Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based marine claims consultancy specialising in Transport Liability, P&I, and Hull & Machinery claims. With decades of experience in maritime law and claims management, he advises shipowners, operators, and cargo interests across the Asia-Pacific region. Jagan is a regular contributor to international maritime conferences including ICMA and writes extensively on developments in shipping law, bills of lading, general average, and arbitration.
Cargo Insurance: Choice or necessity?
This article is written for AMICIE (Association of Maritime International Commercial Interests & Expertise) which the author is a member of. AMICIE is conducting a seminar at Mumbai on Crew Welfare on 27th September 2025 at Mumbai, India and we…
Model Arbitration Clauses
Arbitration is the preferred dispute resolution method for most shipping contracts such as Charterparties (“C/P”) and with clauses allowing choice to parties to choose both the seat of the arbitration and the rules such as LMAA/SCMA/HKMAG… to govern the procedure.…
Association of Multimodal Transport Operators of India (AMTOI)
AMTOI celebrated its biennial annual day on 06th Aug 2025 at Mumbai, India, and which we were fortunate to attend. We wish AMTOI every success in catalyzing multimodalism and which is what their moto is. Our attendance at the AMTOI…
GA & Salvage – Value of Containers – II
Recently one of the Average Adjusters collecting security for a GA advised that they wished to collect security for containers based on the values proposed by a large UK Insurer. Given that the valuation of our clients differed, our clients…
Arbitration – requirement for dispute!
We recently attended the SCMA Jakarta Conference 2025 held on 16th July 2025. As usual, SCMA conducted a very nice conference with speakers speaking on various developments. It was nice to come across one of the slides of Sue Ann…
The Merchant Clause
Bills of Lading (“Bs/L”) issued by Container Carriers/NVOCC’s invariably contain a definition clausei in which a Merchant is defined as “including the Shipper, Holder, Consignee, Receiver of the Goods, any person owning or entitled to the possession or of the…
Freight Forwarders – Co-operation
We recently came across the latest legal updates of Kennedy’s in which they reported on an Australian case, Manassen Foods v Seaway Logistics : A salad dressing debacle decided as a matter of ‘undisclosed principal’i, which went right up to…
House Bills of Lading
The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers is a membership organisation involved in maintaining professional standards in the commercial shipping industry. In this regard, it conducts examinations in various subjects including Legal Principles of Shipping Business (“LPS”) (which is one of the…
Liner Container Contracts – Contractual Issues
Our below article focusses on both the formation of a contract and the limitation of liability available for Delay related claims with respect to Container Shipments. When is a contract formed? It is uncontroversial that for chartering contracts under English…