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Recent Articles
The Final Word on Detention and Demurrage in the United States?
Pauline Davies, Fee Langstone, New Zealand The Federal Maritime Commission[1] recently released its final interpretive rule concerning the reasonableness of detention and demurrage charges. The FMC’s announcement is a response to complaints of shippers, freight...
Limited liability of carrier’s bodies in case of loss of deck cargo
Felix Goebel, Dr. Marco Remiorz, Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein, Germany On 8 November 2018 the Hamburg Higher Regional Court had to rule on a damages claim arising from the loss of deck cargo during a sea voyage (6 U 222/16). The court ruled this case differently from a...
New Zealand Covid-19 Update
Pauline Davies, Fee Langstone, New Zealand As of 1pm on 20 April 2020, New Zealand had had only five new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, continuing a solid downwards trend. In total, 13 deaths have been reported. The government has therefore announced that...
Canada Covid-19 Update
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada All provinces in Canada continue on "lock-down", with most non-essential businesses closed and most provincial governments taking measures to enforce social distancing rules. The US-Canada border...
Warehouse Keeper successfully invokes Force Majeure
Warehouse Keeper successfully invokes Force Majeure for Malfunctioning Foam Fire Extinguishing System Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam Warehousing. Spontaneous release of foam by fire extinguishing installation. Damage to goods stored....
Measures for COVID-19 in Mexico
María Elena Sierra Díaz, AS Consultores, Mexico The situation in Mexico is comparable to the measures taken in the rest of the world. The first recorded case of Coronavirus was the last week of February 2020, today the government has issued a series of recommendations...
Covid-19: South Africa
William Fullard, Fullard Mayer Morrison, South Africa State of disaster On 15 March 2020, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs declared a national state of disaster in terms of section 27 (2) of the Disaster Management Act No 57 of 2002, as a...
Covid-19: France
Florent Vigny, Causidicor, France France is officially for two months in “a state of health emergency” (JORF n°0072 du 24 mars 2020 texte n° 2. LOI n° 2020-290 du 23 mars 2020 d'urgence pour faire face à l'épidémie de covid-19). This special Law was enacted to...
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