Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Limitation of liability - Conduct barring limitation - Fishing vessel's gear getting hooked on submarine fibre optic cable - Master of fishing vessel cutting submarine cable to release gear - Owners of cable bringing proceedings in personam and in rem - Whether defendants liable - Whether defendants precluded from limiting liability - Whether underwriters entitled to deny coverage

Admiralty jurisdiction – Floating home – Whether a “vessel”

Carriage of goods – Intermodal carriage of goods from Kentucky to Vienna by road and sea – Carrier sub-contracting domestic leg to US road carrier – Goods destroyed during domestic carriage – Shipper’s subrogee bringing action against road carrier – Whether COGSA or Carmack Amendment applied – Whether road carrier acted as “receiving carrier” under Carmack Amendment

Charterparty – Off-hire – Vessel detained by court order at discharge port – Order procured by C&F seller to secure demurrage claim against cargo receivers – Whether sellers and/or receivers “agents” of charterers – Whether vessel off-hire