GALTRADE LTD v BP OIL INTERNATIONAL LTD (THE “PIONEER”)

[2022] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 129

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Beltrami

Sale of goods (fob) – Fuel oil – Seller in breach of quality obligation in contract – Buyer purporting to reject cargo – Seller treating buyer's rejection as repudiatory breach – Whether relevant obligation was condition or intermediate term – Whether buyer entitled to reject cargo – Whether buyer entitled to claim for wasted expenditure – Whether buyer in breach of contract – Quantum of seller's loss – Sale of Goods Act 1979, sections 50 and 53.