by Editor | Jun 20, 2022 | Carriage by Sea, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada On Thursday June 16th 2022 President Biden signed into law the “Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022”, S. 3580 (the OSRA) [full text]. The OSRA is intended to improve efficiency and competitiveness in...
by Editor | Jun 17, 2022 | Case Summaries, Commercial Issues
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: Ivy Technology Ltd v Martin [2022] EWHC 1218 (Comm) Henshaw J. The concept of agency is pervasive throughout the law of carriage of good in many different contexts. Central to agency in law is the conferral of authority by the...
by Editor | Jun 8, 2022 | Case Summaries
Michael Zbonikowski, Dr. Marco Remiorz, Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein, Germany The parties were in dispute about damage that occurred to goods while they were being stored during transit. The plaintiff sold a used injection moulding machine to a customer in India and...
by Editor | May 24, 2022 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is continuing to push on unfair carrier charges as an anticompetitive burden to American shippers and importers. Earlier this month, the FMC announce that it...
by Editor | May 18, 2022 | Case Summaries, Commercial Issues
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: Pakistan International Airline Corporation v Times Travel (UK) Ltd [2021] UKSC 40 A refusal by a carrier to carry further or indeed at all absent compliance with a demand for payment or further payment or some other renegotiation...
