by Editor | Jan 21, 2016 | National Issues, Summaries of Cases
Aage Krogh, IUNO Denmark In a partial judgment concerning arbitration, the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court rejected a legal appeal against a freight forwarder affiliated with the contracting carrier, since the carrier was not legally bound by the agreement in...
by Editor | Jan 21, 2016 | Summaries of Cases
Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam Introduction On 11 September 2015 the Dutch Supreme Court rendered judgment (C&J Veldhuizen Holding B.V. v Beurskens Allround Cargo B.v., S&S 2016/1) on the interpretation of provisions...
by Editor | Jan 13, 2016 | Carriage by Air, Summaries of Cases
Aage Krogh, IUNO Denmark The Norwegian Appeal Court has established that a freight forwarder had to compensate a shipper 39,000 Euro as a load of salmons arrived 40 hours late and therefore no longer were fit for human consumption. The freight forwarder had to...
by Editor | Jan 11, 2016 | Carriage by Sea, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada Background The Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS) is a treaty of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations agency tasked with maintaining a comprehensive framework of...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | Jurisdiction + Forum
Ik Wei Chong, Clyde + Co, Shanghai There are very few instances where an arbitration agreement, which provides for the arbitration to be administered by a non-Chinese arbitral institution (such as the ICC) under its arbitration rules, also provides for the seat of...
