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The Saudi Prince - Q.B.D. (Adm.Ct.) Sheen J.) - 28 May 1982
In 1976 a cargo of ceramic tiles being carried from Torre Annunziata to Jeddah in the ship Al Dhahran suffered damage before it was delivered. At that time, the Al Dhahran
was owned by a Mr. Orri, an Arabian businessman who traded in Jeddah under..
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10 June 1982
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Federal Commerce & Navigation Ltd. v. Suisse Atlantique Societe D’Armement S.A. (The Cruziero do Sul) - Court of Appeal (Lord Denning M.R., Griffiths and Kerr L.JJ.) - 2 March 1982
The vessel Cruzeiro do Sul
was time-chartered to take a cargo of pipes from Hamburg to Mexico. In the Bay of Biscay a number of pipes which had been loaded on deck were lost and the rest became loose. The vessel put into Bilbao where the cargo was..
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10 June 1982
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Astro Exito Navegacion S.A. v. Chase Manhatten Bank S.A. (The Messianiaki Tolmi) - Court of Appeal (Stephenson, Ackner and O’Connor L.JJ.) - 5 April 1982
The respondent sellers agreed to sell their vessel Messianiaki Tolmi
to S Ltd. for scrap. The purchase price was to be paid by irrevocable letter of credit confirmed by the appellant bank (Chase). Payment was to be conditional on the lodging of..
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Jack Israel Ltd. v. Ocean Dynamic Lines (The Ocean Dynamic) - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Robert Goff J.) - 5 March 1982
The plaintiff fruit and vegetable dealers agreed to buy from S Co. a quantity of frozen cherries in poly lined cartons. The goods were shipped at Kenosha in cartons each containing 30 lbs of cherries on board the reefer vessel Ocean Dynamic
. The..
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Olbena S.A. v. Psara Maritime Inc. (The Thanassis A) - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Robert Goff J.) - 22 March 1982
One of the issues before the judge was the construction of clause 8 of the Exxonvoy form, which read:
If, however, demurrage shall be incurred at ports of loading and/or discharge by reason of fire, explosion, storm or by a strike, lockout, stoppage..
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The charterparty was on the NYPE form and was subject to the U.S.A. Clause Paramount. By the standard clause 8, the master was to be under the orders and directions of the charterers, and the charterers were to load, stow, trim and discharge the..
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10 June 1982
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Monterosso Shipping Co. Ltd. v. ITF (The Rosso) - Court of Appeal (Lord Denning, M.R. and May L.J.) - 28 May 1982
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)..
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24 June 1982
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Intermare Transport GmbH v. International Copra Export Corpn. (The Ross Isle and The Ariel - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Staughton J.) - 23 April 1982
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..
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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..
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The Rumba - Fed.Ct. of Appeal - 19 March 1982
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..
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24 June 1982
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Tanagba & Ors v. Pipinos Shipping Co. Ltd. (The Christos) - Supreme Court of Cyprus - (1981) 1 CLR 255
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..
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24 June 1982
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International Longshoremen’s Association AFL-CIO v. Allied International Inc. - U.S. Court of Appeals (1st Circuit) - 20 April 1982
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..
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24 June 1982
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