Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

D agreed to sell about 50,000 tonnes of crude oil to P on c.i.f. terms. Both parties were oil traders. D failed to supply the oil and subsequently admitted liability for breach of contract. P sought damages based on loss of profits from a sub-sale..

The Privy Council has stated that in a case where the trial judge had to assess the evidence of witnesses about telephone conversations which had taken place over five years prior to the hearing, memories could very well be unreliable and it was of..

The plaintiff cargo owners claimed damages for loss of their cargo against the owners and the time charterers of the vessel Newfoundland Coast . The main issue was whether the charterers (CN Marine) were liable as carriers. CN provided a passenger..

CN argued that damages should be limited to $500 per container on the basis of Article IV, rule 5, of the Hague Rules, which provided: Neither the carrier nor the ship shall in any event be or become liable for any loss or damage . . . in an amount..

The following note has been sent to us by Paul Goemans, Stephane Mirdikian and Anne Goemans, Avocats, at Antwerp: This decision of the Court of Appeal of Ghent reverses the holding of the courts in international private law relating to preferential..

In early November 1984, as the vessel was making her way west towards Montreal, her disponent owners entered into a sub-voyage charter for the carriage of a cargo from Duluth to Europe. On 21 November 1984 the Valleyfield Bridge failed, with the..