by Editor | Feb 4, 2022 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues, National Issues
The Federal Maritime Commission is seeking public input on an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in respect of carrier detention billing practices. This of course follows their May 2020 publication of an Interpretive Rule on Carrier Billing Practices and October...
by Editor | Jan 20, 2022 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada On Tuesday, January 18th, the Korea Fair Trade Commission hit numerous shipping companies with a total of USD$81 million in fines for price fixing on multiple routes between Korea and other east...
by Editor | Jan 14, 2022 | Carriage by Sea
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has launched an investigation into Japanese consortium Ocean Network Express PTE and its American subsidiary (collectively “ONE”) to determine...
by Editor | Nov 15, 2021 | Carriage by Sea, Summaries of Cases
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. This matter – all about passage planning and seaworthiness, has finally been decided by the Supreme Court. I couldn’t help feeling, reading the case, that it provides one of those examples where you think to yourself “How on earth...
by Editor | Nov 9, 2021 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada On 1 October 2021, Zim declared a General Average incident in respect of the loss and damage sustained in the recent fire aboard the vessel near Victoria, BC. What is General Average? An incident...
by Editor | Nov 3, 2021 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues, National Issues
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