by Editor | Mar 23, 2016 | National Issues
Aage Krogh, IUNO Denmark A carrier was held liable for damages to goods caused by lifting and humidity, when the goods were being stored and transported within the port area previously to shipping. The carrier and the consignor did not have an established agreement...
by Editor | Mar 23, 2016 | National Issues
Felipe Arizon, Spain felipearizon@arizon.es Introduction The “Prestige” was an Aframax class oil tanker registered in the Bahamas with a Liberian corporation as owner and operated by a Greek company. On November 13th, 2002, while it was carrying 77,000 mt of heavy...
by Editor | Mar 6, 2016 | National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/ctareview2014/canada-transportation-act-review.html In June 2014 the Government of Canada commissioned a review of the Canada Transportation Act and related legislation, with...
by Editor | Feb 22, 2016 | Summaries of Cases
Aage Krogh, IUNO Denmark The Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court has established that a toy manufacturer could bring forward a claim against a Danish transport company, but not against the affiliated Czech company. The claim was based on a transport, which the...
by Editor | Feb 22, 2016 | Carriage by Air, Summaries of Cases
Gill Nadel, Goldfarb Seligman, Israel Damaged cargo claims against air carriers (airlines) are subject to an extremely short statute of limitations, becoming time barred two years from the cargo’s date of delivery (or the date it should have been delivered), in...
