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Recent Articles
Containers Overboard! How can I Efficiently Protect my Rights – MV “YM Efficiency”
Maurice Lynch, Senior Associate, and Tom Mangan, Law Graduate, Mills Oakley. Australia In the age of mega container ships capable of carrying thousands of containers, the potential for incidents affecting large numbers of these containers increases. In the past four...
Derogation from CMR by Framework Agreement
Arnold Van Steenderen, Charlotte J. van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam Under the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) carriers shall be free to agree among themselves on provisions other than those...
Interlegal lawyers refunded m/v Norasia Taurus general average costs
Arthur A. Nitsevych, Interlegal Ukraine nitsevych@interlegal.com.ua Interlegal lawyers completed final case proceedings upon maritime casualty upon m/v «Norasia Taurus» in 2005. The Client refunded unused costs of guarantee security for cargo release, which resulted...
Brexit – The Impact on Transport Law And Regulation
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. It is a truism that business doesn’t like uncertainty. And it a further truism that Brexit brings plenty of uncertainty. The fact is that the process will require the reassessment of the way trade and the movement of goods have...
Beyond the carrier’s period of responsibility – Is there liability?
Ik Wei Chong, Clyde + Co, Shanghai According to Article 46 of the Chinese Maritime Code, the responsibility of a carrier for cargo carried in containers covers the entire period during which the carrier is in charge of the goods, starting from the time the carrier has...
Interlegal becomes the official representative of MTBS in Ukraine
Interlegal and MTBS (Maritime & Transport Business Solutions), a leading maritime consultancy company from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, have agreed on a strategic partnership related to port and infrastructure projects in Ukraine under a new “MTBS Ukraine” brand....
The 2018 Dutch Forwarding Conditions
Arnold Van Steenderen + Charlotte Van Steenderen Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam The Dutch Freight Forwarders Association (“FENEX”) issued the first edition of its Standard Trading Conditions (“STC” or “Fenex Conditions”) on 15 March 1956. Since then the...
Ship arrest in Ukraine: updated regulations
Arthur A. Nitsevych, Interlegal Ukraine nitsevych@interlegal.com.ua There are no doubts that the main occasion, which will determine the Ukrainian legal trends in sea carriage in 2018, is the entry into force of the Law of Ukraine on October 03 2017 “On amendments to...
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