by Editor | May 24, 2018 | STCs
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...
by Editor | May 22, 2018 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
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...
by Editor | May 16, 2018 | Carriage by Sea, Case Summaries
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Introduction This important Court of Appeal case concerned the scope of the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules and their application to the carriage of goods by sea in containers. Kyokuyo (the respondent to the appeal and the claimant cargo...
by Editor | May 9, 2018 | Carriage by Sea
Gill Nadel, Dave Zeitoun, Shirly Strezhevsky, Goldfarb Seligman, Israel Background: Israeli legislation created a special arrangement which allows for claims to be filed against individuals who are not within the territory of the State of Israel. The plaintiff files a...
by Editor | Apr 23, 2018 | Case Summaries, Principal + Agent
Roy Gilad, Grossman, Cordova, Gilad & Co, Israel On March 14, 2018, the Magistrate Court in the city of Be’er Sheva in Israel gave a ruling on the question of whether a freight forwarder is responsible for alleged damage sustained by an importer as a result of a...
