Jasmin Sandhu, Syndicate Executive Claims, Steamship Eastern Syndicate has written on the case of The Rubicon Vantage [2019] EWHC 2012 (Comm), in which the Commercial Court considered the on demand nature of a parent company guarantee and found the parent company liable to pay, notwithstanding the...
On March 29th the US Supreme Court rules that the traditional language in which the charterer promises to send the ship to a safe berth, which shall be procured by the charter, is a warranty that the berth will, in fact, be safe. It is not merely a promise that the charterer will exercise due…
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Simon Rainey QC and Gaurav Sharma of Quadrant Chambers have proposed 10 easy rules for keeping the current international arbitration diary “on the road as much as possible”. Quadrant noted that the Covid-19 pandemic had placed “enormous challenges on every aspect of life”. Arbitration hearings, which almost always consisted of a mixture of parties, representatives,…
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The UK has suspended checks on ships for their compliance with the recently introduced low sulphur fuel regulations. The move was part of wider measures that cut back on inspections to reduce the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on supply chains, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said on...
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U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood ruled on March 24th that she would not halt the removal of capsized car carrier Golden Ray (IMO 9775816) while salvor Donjon-SMIT continued its legal case against the US Coast Guard, claiming that the salvor was unfairly removed from the task of...
The internationally recognized Libyan government, which controls about half of the country has said that it would be beginning its investigation into alleged sanctions-breaking of a tanker after a period of quarantine ends in two weeks. The coast guard at Misrata seized chemical/oil products tanker...
Rory Butler and senior associate Jenny Salmon of specialist law firm HFW have warned shipowners that, with less than one year remaining for the owners of any ships calling at EU ports or anchorages to arrange surveys, required by the EU Ship Recycling Regulation, to identify if hazardous materials...
Capital Ship Management Corp has said that recently built crude oil tanker Andronikos (IMO 9830812), which was previously known as the Anbar had been released from arrest in Singapore after the owners’ P&I Club posted security. It has resumed trading. The owners said that the vessel, together with...
Singapore-based Unix Line Pte Ltd., the primary ship management arm of MOL Chemical Tankers, will pay a fine of $1.65m as a result of a case in which crew members onboard chemical/oil products tanker Zao Galaxy (IMO 9566150) knowingly failed to record in the vessel’s oil record book the overboard...
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Salvor Donjon-SMIT has filed papers in federal court in Brunswick, Georgia, USA, as a revised proposed findings of facts and conclusions of law. The salvor asserts that the environment was threatened, and that work on removal of capsized car carrier Golden Ray (IMO 9775816) was delayed for months...
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