Maritime insights and claims intelligence from Singapore
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…
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.…
AMTOI celebrated its biennial annual day on 06th Aug 2025 at Mumbai, India, and which we were fortunate to attend. We wish AMTOI every success in catalyzing multimodalism and which is what their moto is. Our attendance at the AMTOI…
Recently one of the Average Adjusters collecting security for a GA advised that they wished to collect security for containers based on the values proposed by a large UK Insurer. Given that the valuation of our clients differed, our clients…
We recently attended the SCMA Jakarta Conference 2025 held on 16th July 2025. As usual, SCMA conducted a very nice conference with speakers speaking on various developments. It was nice to come across one of the slides of Sue Ann…
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…
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…
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…
Our below article focusses on both the formation of a contract and the limitation of liability available for Delay related claims with respect to Container Shipments. When is a contract formed? It is uncontroversial that for chartering contracts under English…
We recently had an opportunity to speak in a webinar conducted on 11th April 2025 by AMTOI. One of the questions raised during the session was on the reluctance of NVOCC’s to release cargo against a Bank Guarantee (“BG”) and…
The Singapore Branch of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokersi recently conducted a conference on Shipbroking: Navigating the future – Trends, Opportunities and Risks and which was widely attended from the shipping fraternity. Firstly, Kudos to the Office bearers of the…
The NUS Centre for Maritime Law (“CML”) recently published a paper on “The Impact of Containerization on Carrier Liability” authored by Mustafa Yilmaz, a research associate with CML. This paper is a must read for claims practitioners involved in containerized…