Owners of the X-Press Mahanada v Owners of the Burgan [2025] EWHC 721 (Admlty) - King's Bench Division, Admiralty Court (Mrs Justice Cockerill, Captain Stephen Gobbi and Commodore Robert Dorley) - 26 March 2025

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

At about 08.17 local time on Friday 14 June 2019 a collision occurred between the claimants' container vessel X-Press Mahanada ( XPM) and the defendants' product tanker Burgan. It occurred at the Gupta Crossing, which was a significant bend in the Karnaphuli River in the approaches to the Bangladeshi port of Chattogram. At the time of the collision XPM was incoming and Burgan was outgoing.