Lloyd's Shipping & Trade Law

The exclusion of deck cargo from the scope of application of the Hague-Visby Rules should not be mistaken for a lack of regulation: liability for deck cargo will in fact be subject to the duties and liabilities provided for by the law applicable to the contract of carriage under which the cargo is carried.

A ship sale with impediments

India has enacted a new law, the Admiralty (Jurisdiction, and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Act 2017, replacing laws more than 150 years old. It deals with admiralty jurisdiction, the arrest of ships and other connected proceedings in Indian courts.1

Classification: not a sine qua non

With Stena Impero now detained in an Iranian port, under investigation for its alleged transgression against navigation regulations in the Strait of Hormuz, there are several legally curious aspects to this affair, of which those rules are just one aspect.