Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The House of Lords has now confirmed that clause 13 of the Baltime charter does not give shipowners the very wide protection that it might have appeared to do. The appellants had time-chartered the vessel TFL Prosperity from the respondent..

The vessel Span Terza was chartered on the NYPE form. Clause 71 provided that the charterers had the option to cancel the charterparty if the vessel remained off hire continuously for longer than 25 days. On 18 November 1981 the vessel was arrested..

This was a case where the arbitration award had been based on the pre-Evia view of the law as to safe port obligations. The vessel Lucille was chartered on the NYPE form. On 31 July 1980 she completed loading bagged cement at Constantza and by a..

The plaintiff cargo owners sued the defendant shipowners under a bill of lading in respect of damage caused to 915 bags of sugar. The vessel was on charter at the relevant time and the bill of lading was issued on the standard liner bill of lading..

In this recent London Arbitration there was a difference of view regarding the meaning of the phrase “blocking and trapping”. The ship was chartered under the NYPE form. Typed clause 50 provided: Normal extra war risk insurance..