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Recent Articles
Limitation Conventions and Forum Non Conveniens
Limitation Conventions and Forum Non Conveniens - Strategically Navigating Different Regimes for Maritime Claims Frazer Hunt, Partner, Maurice Lynch, Special Counsel and Diana Lee, Law Graduate, Mills Oakley, Australia When a shipowner is sued for personal injury or...
Ocean Shipping Reform Act Introduced in US Congress
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada On August 10th Congressmen John Garamendi (D-CA) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) introduced the “Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021”, a bipartisan proposal which would, if passed, become the first...
The CHALLENGER – a (real) shipping law exam question
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. The recently reported case of SK Shipping Europe PLC v VLCC 3 Corporation and another raised a number of legal issues which are of general interest as a matter of English commercial law and arise from time to time but do not often...
CMR road transport: damage to cargo caused by stowaways
Ref: Articles 17, 23 and 25, CMR Charlotte J. van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers The Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road ("CMR") provides a liability regime for international road carriage claims. Pursuant to article...
Biden Administration targets anti-competitive detention charges
On Friday July 9th the White House announced a series of 72 initiatives spanning virtually every federal jurisdiction and intended to address anti-competitive practices in industries from telecommunications to prescription drugs. Among these initiatives is an order...
Demurrage: To Infinity and Beyond?
A brief overview of the recent Belgian case law Adry Poelmans, Van Doosselaere Avocaten, Belgium Over the last few years, freight forwarders have been confronted with extensive (and sometimes outrageous) demurrage charges from sea carriers. Although demurrage serves...
Transport costs and customs duty – it’s on you
The increase in customs value in Israel, due to the increase in transport prices – the problem, and the way to the solution Adv. Omer Wagner, Kesselman & Kesselman, Israel In the past year, sea freight prices have risen sharply, an increase that has not been...
Terms of contracts prevail over rights of subrogation
Pauline Davies, Fee Langstone, New Zealand The law has long recognised that where an insurer has indemnified an insured for loss caused by a third party, the insurer can sue the third party in the insured’s name to recover the amount paid. However, two recent English...
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