by Editor | Oct 28, 2018 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues, Legal Lookout
OCTOBER 2018 LEGAL LOOKOUT ARTICLE: The evolution continues: FMC accommodates NVOCC contracting by revising regs governing NSAs and NRAs. Can you believe it’s been 20 years since President Clinton signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 (OSRA) into law? You can...
by Editor | Dec 27, 2017 | Legal Lookout, Multimodal
Steve Block, Foster Pepper PLLC, USA [Ed Note: This article was first published in December 2017’s “Legal Lookout” and is republished here with the author’s permission] Virtually all ocean freight forwarders and surface freight brokers have to...
by Editor | Apr 19, 2017 | Legal Lookout
Steve Block, Foster Pepper PLLC, USA The evolution of ocean shipping requires periodic tune-ups to its management, and the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) recently worked with industry (though its various trade associations) to adjust the cogs of regulatory...
by Steve Block | Aug 29, 2016 | Carriage by Sea, Legal Lookout, Summaries of Cases, Transport Documents
Steve Block, Foster Pepper PLLC, USA Whether master contract trumps conflicting bill of lading is a question of fact not properly decided on summary judgment. Shipper-carrier volume cargo arrangements typically are documented by master contracts stating general terms...
by Editor | Apr 22, 2016 | Legal Lookout
Steve Block, Foster Pepper PLLC, USA DC Court of Appeals doesn’t like FMC’s rationale for allowing disparate rates. Marine terminal operators (MTOs) are subject to U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) regulation in ways similar to ocean carriers and ocean...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | Legal Lookout
Steve Block, Foster Pepper PLLC, USA Maritime law’s doctrine of material deviation – one that goes way back – is defined per Nineteenth Century U.S. Supreme Court case law as a “voluntary departure without necessity, or any reasonable cause, from the regular and usual...
