Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Carriage of goods - Contractual incorporation of Hague Rules - Contract making separate provision for time limits and service - Whether Hague Rules ousted - Whether contractual provisons compatible with Hague Rules, article III, rules 6 and 8

Charterparty - Vessel refused entry into port by reason of crew infection with Covid-19 - Delay caused by sailing to take on fresh crew - Whether vessel off-hire for period of delay

Admiralty - Berthing fees - Whether fees incurred by 14 vessels - Whether claim in rem lay against one of the vessels for all of the fees - Senior Courts Act 1981, sections 20 and 21

Collision - Comparative fault - Failure to keep to starboard side in channel - Lookout - Speed - Intervention of third vessel - Merchant Shipping Act 1995, section 187 - Collision Rules, rules 5, 6, 8 and 9

Charterparty - Amended NYPE 1993 form - Final hire accounts - Off-hire - Underperformance claim - Whether master's or weather routing company's evidence of weather to be preferred - Meaning of "up to BF4" and "in good faith" in performance warranty - Whether damage to ship's cranes caused by stevedores loading and discharging logs - Master abandoning bunkering when vessel double-banked, ropes parted and a seaman was injured - Whether vessel off-hire - Causation Procedure - LMAA Fast and Low Cost Arbitration (FALCA) Rules