The owner and manager of container ship Dali – Singapore-based Grace Ocean Pte and Singapore-based Synergy Marine have filed a federal suit to limit to $43.7m its liability for the allision that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The petition also denies responsibility for the...
Legal experts have said that the owner, operator and charterer of the Dali were likely to face lawsuits over its collapse and the people killed or injured, although US maritime law could limit the companies’ liability. US laws pertaining to open-water navigation and shipping could restrict the...
UK-based international sector-focused law firm HFW has named three new shipping Partners and three new Legal Directors, effective April 1st 2024. The new Shipping Partners are: Rami Al Tal (Shipping, Dubai). Al Tal assists clients with debt recovery, banking disputes, shareholder disputes, labour...
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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that project44 may move forward with its defamation lawsuit against rival visibility provider FourKites.
“We plan to continue on the merits of the case,” Jennifer Coyne, general counsel for project44, told FreightWaves.
The dispute began with emails sent to project44 executives in May 2019, alleging accounting improprieties and ties to organized crime at project44. The first email, from “Ken Adams,” accused the company of financial wrongdoing and mafia...
Project44 has won a major battle in its ongoing defamation suit against competitor FourKites. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that emails in question were published to a third party, and that the Cook County Circuit Court must try the case.
The two FreightTech rivals have been battling it out in the courts after project44 accused FourKites of being behind a defamation campaign via email to two members of project44’s board. Emails from pseudonyms “Ken Adams” at [email protected]...
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The Supreme Court of Cassation (Corte Suprema di Cassazione), the highest Italian court, has confirmed a sentence on one year in prison on Giuseppe Sotgiu, the captain of the offshore tug / supply chip Asso Ventotto (IMO 9379416). In July 2018 his vessel rescued refugees from distress at sea, but...
Kloosterboer International Forwarding LLC and Alaska Reefer Management LLC have agreed to a $9.5m settlement to the US government after a case relating to violations of the Jones Act, a US law which mandates that goods transported between two US ports must be carried on US flagged, owned and...
The US Supreme Court on February 21st voted unanimously for the enforceability of Choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts. In the case of Great Lakes Insurance SE vs Raiders Retreat Realty Co LLC (arguments heard October 10th 2023) the Supreme Court said that there were only “narrow...