Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Costs – Assessment of successful party’s costs

Charterparty – Demurrage – Whether laytime suspended at loading port – Freight – Whether obligation to pay 5 per cent balance of freight conditional on provision of “signed/stamped freight invoice” or on “breaking bulk” – Validity of notice of readiness at discharge port – Whether invalidity of NOR waived – Whether owners entitled to damages for detention – Lien on cargo – Whether owners entitled to exercise lien – Whether lien reasonably exercised – Shifting time

Sale of goods – Contract for sale of biodiesel cif Constanza – Diesel to be of Canadian origin – Diesel subsequently ascertained to be of US origin – Romanian Customs levying additional import duties on buyer – Whether buyer entitled to recover additional duties from seller – Whether sum payable by seller limited to invoice value