AMS AMEROPA MARKETING SALES AG AND ANOTHER V OCEAN UNITY NAVIGATION INC

[2023] EWHC 3264 (Comm), King's Bench Division, Commercial Court, Ms Clare Ambrose sitting as a High Court Deputy Judge, 19 December 2023

Contracts (bills of lading) – Heat damage to soy beans – Carrier admitting breach – Salvage sale by receiver – Seller claiming against carrier having compensated buyer – Title to sue – Mitigation of loss

A cargo of 50,000 mt of yellow soybeans carried from Louisiana to Egypt on board the defendant's vessel Doric Valour in August 2020 had been loaded in apparent good order but was on discharge found to be part damaged.