Negligently Prepared Passage Plan Renders Vessel Unseaworthiness

  • International law aims to apportion risk in the transport of goods between the ship interests and cargo interests.
  • Shipowners are responsible for cargo claims caused by unseaworthiness of the ship.
  • But are exempt from liability for cargo claims caused by certain risks, including navigational errors.
  • The decision in Alize 1954 v Allianz Elementar Versicherungs AG (The “CMA CGM LIBRA”) [2020] EWCA Civ 293 shifts the boundary between “seaworthiness” and “navigation”.
  • As a result shipowners happen...

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