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House Bills of Lading

The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers is a membership organisation involved in maintaining professional standards...

Jagan May 27, 2025

Liner Container Contracts - Contractual Issues

Our below article focusses on both the formation of a contract and the limitation...

Jagan May 13, 2025

Release of Cargo without Original Bills of Lading

We recently had an opportunity to speak in a webinar conducted on 11th April...

Jagan April 14, 2025

Who is a Shipbroker?

The Singapore Branch of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokersi  recently conducted a conference on...

Jagan March 28, 2025

Carrier Liability - Containers

The NUS Centre for Maritime Law (“CML”) recently published a paper on “The Impact...

Jagan March 5, 2025

Mis-declared cargo - 2

We have recently seen some instances of mis-declared cargo by Shippers and due to...

Jagan February 13, 2025

Limitation of Liability – NVO’s

The English High Courti recently held that NVOCC’s (“NVO’s) acting as slot charterersii were...

Jagan January 13, 2025

Difference in Risks – NVO’s

A Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (“NVO”) would generally book with an overlying carrier...

Jagan December 30, 2024

Electronic Bills of Lading – 4

We recently had the privilege to attend two insightful webinars, “The Future of Electronic...

Jagan December 4, 2024

Salvage & General Average – Excessive Security

Recently, we came across a container casualty in which the security demanded was for...

Jagan November 17, 2024

General Average – Differing codes

General Averagei (“GA”) is a long-established principle of Maritime Law and is available as...

Jagan October 28, 2024

Why arbitration for container liner disputes may not be the best fit?

This article is a joint article in the form of a debate with Ashwin...

Jagan October 7, 2024

Freight Forwarder – are they the correct punching bag?

Time and again, we come across Carriers or Cargo interests pursuing a Freight Forwarder...

Jagan September 26, 2024

Bills of Lading - Arbitration Clause

We have been advocating arbitrationi as the preferred dispute resolution process for Liner/NVO Bills...

Jagan August 21, 2024

Shipped on Board Date – II

We had earlier penned an article on Shipped on Board Date. Given that we...

Jagan August 7, 2024

Back to Back Contracts

International Shipping has become increasingly specialized, and which has led to many parties including...

Jagan July 20, 2024

Agent or Principal

Many a times parties believe that they are acting in one specific role i.e....

Jagan June 29, 2024

Container Carriers - Issues

This article will touch on some of the issues faced by a Container Carrier...

Jagan May 30, 2024

Lessons from Baltimore - Risks and Claims

We thank the Madras Chamber of Commerce for allowing us to present our views...

Jagan May 27, 2024

Logistics Contracts – Arbitration

We recently participated in a talk on “Why is Arbitration important in Logistics” jointly...

Jagan April 30, 2024

Of Switch Bills of Lading

We had written earlier on this topic and our earlier articles can be seen...

Jagan March 18, 2024

The Star Antares – YAR 1994 or 2016?

In the “Star Antares” (Star Axe I LLC v Royal and Sun Alliance Luxembourg...

Jagan February 27, 2024

Limitation of Liability – is it really limitation?

Limitation of Liability (“LOL”) clauses are essential to any carriage / service contracts so...

Jagan February 13, 2024

The Midnight Clause

The focus on any business negotiation is to try and reach an agreement at...

Jagan December 24, 2023