The Singapore High Court recently ruled against the Owners of various trademarks that a Singapore freight forwarder involved in the transshipment of Containers (for movement to Indonesia), although listed in the Seaway Bills as the consignee, was not the importer…
Legal Plus and International Malaysian Society of Maritime Law conducted the second Maritime Law Conference on 11/12 October 2017. This conference was very well attended and a wide variety of topics were discussed. Speakers who participated in the conference were…
This is the first guest article written by L M Mohamed Ismail1 and we hope to see more such posts2. INCOTERMS: International Commercial Terms or INCOTERMS, for short, has been the bedrock of international trade for the past eight decades…
The English Supreme Court, on 25th Oct 2017, provided its long awaited decision on The Longchamp allowing Owners the expenses incurred for the crew during the period the vessel was detained whilst Owners were negotiating the quantum of the ransom demanded…
Introduction: We recently had an opportunity to discuss on Bailee liability policy with Mr Dennis Lim & Mr Donald Ng of Amspex Insurance Brokers1. Although, we have not been involved in claims under a “pure” Bailee liability policy, given that…
The Indonesian Coal Mining Association and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration jointly conducted a seminar on 15th Aug 2017 at Jakarta focusing on Coal Mining and Trading which we had the opportunity to attend. The seminar was very well attended with speakers / participants discussing on various topics including dispute resolution. One of the speakers briefly touched on “Force Majeure” in Indonesian law. In our earlier article “Frustration and Force Majeure in Liner Contracts” we had commented on Force Majeure based on “English Law”. As we had not considered the “Force Majeure in civil law, we are writing this brief note to consider the effect of force majeure on the basis of “Civil Law”.
Following the judgement in The Longchamp (presently under appeal at the UK Supreme Court), there were many articles/commentaries on whether the additional expenses incurred by Owners during the negotiations with the Pirates were correctly considered as General Average Expenditutre. Our…
Talk given at Lloyd’s Asia, Singapore – 12 July 2017 Marine Liability Policies are taken by various parties (Owners, Operators, Freight Forwarders, Carriers, Ports and Terminals, Professionals, etc) to cover their liability exposure. Frequently, the exposure arises from failure (including…
What is the best way to deal with a Transport Liability Claim? Should Carriers / Transporters and their Insurers (“TLO”) be involved when the loss is developing? Or should they wait for a claim to be submitted by the claimants?…
One of the advantages of Arbitration is that it is confidential in nature and that parties can arbitrate their disputes without this being available in the public eye (which is not available under the court system). Is this really a…