Cash-strapped owner still pursuing $20m in engine performance row.
http://www.tradewindsnews.com/legal/1592160/imsks-man-claims-to-continue-with-third-party-help
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Onassis prize winners to support students
Academics to donate money to fund research and study into ports and shipping.
http://www.tradewindsnews.com/legal/1590778/onassis-prize-winners-to-support-students
Appeal Court decision provides important time bar guidance
Standard Club’s senior claims executive Ben Chandler has reported on a recent English Court of Appeal decision that provided important guidance on the applicability of charterparty time bar provisions to letters of indemnity (LOIs). The Songa Winds [2018] EWCA Civ 1901 looked at the...
Consignees claim $200,000 over part-damaged consignment of seeds
A cargo recovery agent was engaged in relation to three containers of seeds that had arrived wet. The cargo had a total value of US$145,000. An initial survey concluded that the wet damage was condensation caused due to the container vents being blocked, thereby preventing air circulation. A...
Legal decision by Court leaves Time Bar open to doubt where there is a deviation
Lewis Moore, Toby Miller, Chris Primikiris and Beatrice Cameli of Hill Dickinson have written on the recent decision in Dera Commercial Estate v Derya Inc (The SUR) EWHC 1673. The Commercial Court dealt with a section 68 challenge and appeals on four issues of law under section 69 of the...
Reinforcement of English law approach to international arbitral process
A report from John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull UK says that the recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Sinocore International v RBRG Trading (Lower court decision reported on by IMN on July 14th 2017) to reinforce the English Law approach to the international arbitral process was “to be respected...
To scrub or not to scrub: listed owners reveal their 2020 hands
Shipowners are revealing how they plan to comply with the pending IMO rules as the calendar marches steadily towards the 1 January 2020 deadline
Diamantis Lemos bulker to go under the e-hammer in Piraeus
Second-oldest vessel to be auctioned online to help pay off Orix debt of nearly $3.26m
Manufacturer and freight forwarder said by US court to be responsible for containership explosion
A US court has said that an explosion aboard the container ship MSC Flaminia (IMO 9225615) in 2012 was the result of lay with the way the manufacturer and freight forwarder of a potentially hazardous cargo stored it prior to loading. The US District Court for the Southern District of New York,...