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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.…

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…