MSC MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING COMPANY SA V CONTI 11 CONTAINER SCHIFFAHRTS-GMBH & CO KG MS "MSC FLAMINIA"

[2025] UKSC 14, UK Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, Deputy President, Lord Briggs, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, 9 April 2025

Admiralty – Limitation of liability – Tonnage limitation – Shipowner – Charterer – Shipowner claiming against charterer in respect of losses suffered by shipowner following casualty – Limitation fund – Consequential losses – Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, article 2

As a result of an explosion on the vessel MSC Flaminia on 14 July 2012, hundreds of containers were destroyed or damaged and the vessel itself suffered serious damage.