Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The vessel Rosso was registered in Malta and managed by a Norwegian firm. She was manned by Norwegian officers, but with Spanish crews. The Spanish crews were members of a Spanish seamen’s union called Union General de Trabajadores (UGT)..

These were two applications for an order remitting or setting aside two interim awards made by a sole arbitrator, and for orders that he should state those awards in the form of a special case. By clause 35 of the charterparty the owners warranted..

The claimant charterers entered into a contract of affreightment with the respondents whereby the respondents agreed to load on vessels to be nominated varying quantities of crude oil between 1975 and 1979. The contract incorporated the terms of the..

This was an action for loss and damage of a cargo of locomotives carried from Toronto to Yugoslavia. The action was brought within the year as required by the Hague Rules. The plaintiffs had sought to join two railway companies from Yugoslavia as..

The plaintiff seamen brought an action in Cyprus against the owners of the Christos for arrears of wages. The owners, a limited company registered in Cyprus, applied for the proceedings to be stayed on the ground that the contract of employment..

The respondents were importers of Russian wood from the Soviet Union to United States ports. The stevedores employed to unload the ships in America belonged to the International Longshoremen’s Association (the union). As a protest against the..