Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The Wenjiang was one of 60 ships trapped in the Shatt-al-Arab as a result of the Iran-Iraq war. The arbitrator had found that the charterparty had become frustrated on 24 November 1980. Robert Goff J. granted leave to appeal from the..

25 November 1981 The defendants’ vessel Tesaba ran aground shortly after leaving Salonica on 8 November 1980. The plaintiff salvors entered into a salvage agreement with the defendants on a 1980 Lloyd’s Standard Form (LOF 1980) and..

Sir David Cairns) - 6 November 1981 This case arose out of the 1973 United States soyabean embargo, the facts of which should already be well known to readers of this Newsletter. The respondent sellers sought to avoid their liability for..

The plaintiffs imported a cargo of soya beans from Indonesia between July and September 1973 in the vessels Welsh City and Corfu Island. The cargo was insured by the defendant underwriter under a separate policy covering the risks of “. . ...

The issue in this case centred on the ascertainment of the proper law of a bill of lading. A cargo of Austrian milk powder was shipped by an Austrian company onboard the Panamanian vessel Tenacia at Rotterdam. The Tenacia was managed by a Swiss..

The plaintiff cargo owners contracted with N Ltd. to carry a cargo of wood pulp from Montreal to Liverpool. N Ltd. arranged with the defendant stevedores to load the cargo at their Quebec City terminal. On 21 January 1977 a fire broke out at the..