The Cherry Express
The Cherry Express was in the news in the early party of this year (2025). This loss is related to damage to cargoes of Chilean Fruit (perishable cargo in reefers) loaded in Maersk Saltoroi and which became adrift for 23 days…
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.
The Counterfactual Defence
The term “counterfactual” came into prominence after the English judgement on Unicredit Bank A.G. v Euronav N.V. (“The Sienna”). This word was used once in the High Court Judgement (Para 17) and six times in the Court of Appeal judgement.…
Uninsured Losses – Transport Liability Policy
Often claims do arise in which there are multiple interests, some of which insured by single or multiple insurersi and some uninsuredii. Mature marine insurance covers have the benefit of experience and have developed various adjusting principles to apportion the…
Contract of/for Carriage
For the early part of my career, I was unable to distinguish the difference between “of” and “for”, particularly, when it was used either for Contract of or for Carriage. This may be understandable given that English is not my…
Alternate Dispute Resolution
Webinar conducted by AMTOI on 11 April 2025
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…