Abandonment – Container Shipping
The basic rule is that a contract is meant to be performed. It does...
THE SAFIR 1 V2302N GA
Background: THE SAFIR 1, a container vessel owned by Safeen Feeders 30 Ltd, whilst...
GA – Arbitration Clause
In our earlier article, The Ever-Given Mela – IIi, we mentioned that the appointed...
General Average – Freight Forwarders & Containers
Liability of a Freight Forwarder / NVOCC for a General Average: We had the...
Insurable Interest - Marine Policies
The recent English Court of Appeali judgement has clarified the scope of cover in...
Bills of Lading & Letters of Indemnities
Letters of Indemnity are commonly used in the Shipping Industry for discharge and delivery...
ABS 1/10/83 – Indemnity or Contingency Policy?
There is very little literature on this class of business (loss of hire), at...
Delays – Container Shipments
Container shipments may be delayed due to various reasons, and which could include vessel...
Loss of or damage – does it include economic loss?
The Institute Cargo Clauses (1/1/82 & 1/1/09), the Institute Time Clauses Hulls (1/10/83 &...
General Average - Reasonableness
We were invited by the Gujarat Maritime Universityi to participate in a webinar conducted...
Mis-Delivery of Cargo – Time Bar–2
The English High Court recently held in FIM Bank PLC v KCH Shipping Co.,...
Art X - Hague Visby Rules
The recent Marine Brief of Kennedysi provided an update of a Australian judgement (MV...
Arbitration - Low Value Claims
Shipping is an international business and with participants often from different nationalities, locations, and...
Art IX of the Hague Rules
The NCovid19 pandemic forced all of us to change the way we both worked...
Back to Basics – Contract of Carriage
Shipowners are invariably in a better bargaining position and able to incorporate various clauses...
Which Document to issue?
Unitization including containerization has allowed cargo to be moved seamlessly between various modes of...
Bills of Lading – Title to Sue
One of the functions of a Bill of Lading (“B/L”) is that it acts...
Cargo Liens for Unpaid Hire / Freight
We were involved, some time back, in a situation in which Owners held lien...
Container Operators – Equipment related claims
We have, off late, been seeing some claims related to refrigerated cargo arising due...
STC - Logistics Service Providers
Standard Trading Conditions (“STC”)i,also known as General Conditions of Business, are standardized trading terms...
Container Issues – CY/CY & Detention
Although approx. 20% of the seaborne cargo by tonnage is carried in container vessels,...
Maritime Arbitration - Wet Disputes
Dry shipping disputes generally relate to contractual breaches with respect to charter partiesi, contracts...
Diversity in Marine Insurance
The Late Sanjeev Bhandari was a doyen of the Marine Insurance field in India....
Bills of Lading - NVOCC's
A Bill of Lading (“B/L”) is perhaps the most important shipping document given that...