Trafigura Maritime Logistics Pte Ltd v Clearlake Shipping Pte Ltd (“The Miracle Hope”) (No 3) – QBD (Comm Ct) (Teare J) [2020] EWHC 995 (Comm) – 27 April 2020

Admiralty practice – Mandatory injunction granted by court requiring voyage charterers to provide security to release vessel from arrest by bank – Failure to reach agreement with bank on terms of guarantee – Time charterers seeking variation of injunction orders – Whether orders should be varied – Whether payment into court should be ordered

By orders made by Henshaw J on 24 March 2020 and by Jacobs J on 31 March 2020 the court granted mandatory injunctions against: (1) the voyage charterer (Clearlake); and (2) the sub-voyage charterer (Petrobras), “forthwith” to provide such bail or other security required to secure the release of the vessel Miracle Hope from arrest in Singapore.