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 | Commercial Issues, Summaries of Cases
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...
by Editor | May 11, 2022 | Commercial Issues, Summaries of Cases
First Time Chinese Court Recognises English Commercial Judgment – The Expanded Interpretation of the “Principle of Reciprocity” Ik Wei Chong, Flora Tang and Si Cong Jiang, Clyde + Co, Shanghai On 17 March 2022, after obtaining approval from the...
by Editor | Apr 14, 2022 | Commercial Issues, Summaries of Cases
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: DHL Project & Chartering Ltd v Gemini Ocean Shipping Co. Ltd [2022] EWHC 181 (Comm) Jacobs J. This recent case in the London Commercial Court considered the effect of a “subject shipper/receivers’ approval”...
by Editor | Apr 8, 2022 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
Recent Changes in the Italian Civil Code on contract of freight forwarding and multimodal carriage Claudio Perrella LS Lex, Italy A few recent and relevant changes have been introduced in the Italian Civil Code impacting on the contract of freight forwarding and...
by Editor | Apr 5, 2022 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues, Summaries of Cases
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: MUR Shipping BV v RTI Ltd [2022] EWHC 467 (Comm) Jacobs J. This recent case in the London Commercial Courts raised an important issue on the extent of a party’s entitlement to serve a force majeure notice in circumstances where...
