Letters of Indemnity are commonly used in the Shipping Industry for discharge and delivery of cargo without Bills of Lading (“Bs/L”), change of discharge port and/or cargo details and for payment without shipping documents. Kennedys Singapore recently conducted a seminar…
There is very little literature on this class of business (loss of hire), at least on the English forms, except for perhaps the Chairman of the Association of Average Adjuster’s Addresses in 2012i and the recent presentation of Mr. Rui…
Container shipments may be delayed due to various reasons, and which could include vessel arriving at the load port much after the ETA. delays during transshipment due to delayed arrival of vessel, congestion, work stoppages, etc. cargo not loaded or…
The Institute Cargo Clauses (1/1/82 & 1/1/09), the Institute Time Clauses Hulls (1/10/83 & 1/11/95) and the International Hull Clauses 2003 provide cover for “… loss of or damage to the subject matter insured…”. Comparatively, the cover provided by various…
We were invited by the Gujarat Maritime Universityi to participate in a webinar conducted on 20th Dec 2022 on “The Role of General Average in the Maritime Industry” . During the talk, one of the participants enquired on “the courts…
The English High Court recently held in FIM Bank PLC v KCH Shipping Co., Ltd (“FIM Bank v KCH”)i that the one-year time limit for cargo claims provided in the Hague-Visby Rules also applied for mis delivery claims. The Bills…
The recent Marine Brief of Kennedysi provided an update of a Australian judgement (MV Dijksgracht) which touched on the application of the Hague Visby Rules (“HVR”). In the MV Dijksgracht, the Australian COGSA would have applied if a negotiable document…
Shipping is an international business and with participants often from different nationalities, locations, and different systems of law. Accordingly, parties would have different expectations such that disputes would invariably arise. While parties often resolve issues by themselves (by negotiation), some…
The NCovid19 pandemic forced all of us to change the way we both worked and communicated. While the world is now back to normalcy, some of the changes effected during the lockdown in the way work is performed together with…
Shipowners are invariably in a better bargaining position and able to incorporate various clauses in the contract of carriage / Bills of Lading entitling them to either exclude liability or limit liability for any loss or damage to cargo. Given…