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Recent Articles
Effect of Arbitration Clause on 3rd Party Assignee
Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam Ref: In MV ‘KOUTALIANOS’, EDIOLA SHIPPING LTD. vs CEFETRA B.V., Rotterdam District Court, 9 September 2020 The case concerns the carriage of soybean meal pellets by Ediola from Brazil to Europe on board...
Container Shipping Returns to Great Lakes
On 20 October 2020 the containership Claude A Desgagnés departed Montreal en route to Toronto, according to reports by the Port of Montreal and others. The voyage, a collaboration between MSC and Groupe Desgagnés, is the first such container cabotage route on the...
Militarization of customs and ports in Mexico
María Elena Sierra Díaz, AS Consultores, Mexico The present year has brought an enormous amount of changes and surprises to the world, and Mexico is no exception. Due to the globalization process, every situation happening at a world level, affects our institutions,...
FMC Call for Submissions on Carrier Merchant Clauses
The US Federal maritime Commission (FMC) announced a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) earlier this month seeking public comment on the practices of vessel operating carriers relating to the definition of "Merchant". More specifically, the FMC seeks comments from the container...
Contractual Choice of Law in Quickie Convenience
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently addressed an interprovincial commercial dispute in which contractual choices of law and forum played a central role, overturning the decision of the Superior Court and granting the appellant relief. Ref: Quickie Convenience Stores...
Caught in the Middle: Storage and Demurrage Charges
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada In spite of global supply chain interruptions caused by COVID-19, carriers and terminals have largely continued to impose tariff charges for storage, detention, and demurrage of containers. While...
Road Haulage Association – Conditions of Carriage 2020
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. After a lapse of a little over a decade, the RHA have refreshed their carriage conditions. The latest version will be very familiar to most parties. The overall scheme of liability has been retained but there are a few significant...
Judicial Guidance Opinions and Cases in China Relating to Covid-19
By Yingbo (George) Wang & Xin Mu, Dentons Beijing Since the sudden outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, numerous central and local authorities in China have enacted policies to bailout businesses and individuals. Meanwhile some of higher people’s courts have issued...
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