Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The respondents imported a cargo of soya beans from Indonesia to ports in Belgium and the Netherlands between July and September 1973 in the vessels Welsh City and Corfu Island . The cargo was insured by the appellant underwriter under a separate..

A dispute arose between buyers and sellers under a Norwegian Sale Form contract dated 23 September 1969 involving the vessel Hannah Blmenthal . In 1972 both parties appointed their arbitrators. Under the arbitration clause a third arbitrator should..

In 1977 Flota Petrolera chartered the vessel Scaptrade from the owners on a Shelltime 3 form which contained the usual provision for withdrawal in default of payment of hire. Hire was due on the 8th of each month. By 1979 the market had risen..

Tradax sold 16,500 tons of soyabean meal to Congimex under four contracts of sale c.i.f. Free Out Lisbon. Shipment was to be in four instalments, the first in December 1974 and the last in August 1975. The terms of payment (for three of the..

The Wenjiang was one of 60 vessels trapped in the Shatt-al-Arab as a result of the Iran/Iraq war. She had been chartered to the appellants for twelve months by a timecharter dated 29 February 1980. In September 1980 the Iran/Iraq war broke out and..