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27/09/2011

E-mail error

A commercial manager of a fleet of tankers was very aware of the perils of failing to make sure that demurrage claims were presented in time. They had a detailed diary and spreadsheet system in their office recording the relevant...

27/09/2011

A health and safety fine

When an accident occurred on a vessel, the local authorities brought proceedings against the ship manager (who also acted as the crew manager). The accident happened onboard when a wire on one of the vessel’s cranes snapped...

01/03/2011

Arctic Arrest

A South American ship agent advised ITIC that the owners of a cruise ship owed them over USD 25,000 relating to the costs of crew and supplies incurred during various calls. Reminders and chasers to the owners had not resulted in...

01/03/2011

Defrosted Shrimps

In the ten years from 2000 to 2010 claims against liner agents for errors in passing on reefer temperatures for refrigerated containers or failure to arrange for reefers to be plugged in to the electricity supply at the port have...

01/03/2011

Bunker Bungle

A commercial manager had, for several months, been operating a ship on a regular route which involved a call at Singapore, where she was usually bunkered. The commercial manager was advised by the ship owners that the ship had...

01/03/2011

Pass it ALL on

Shipbrokers arranged a sub-charter. As is usual the main terms of the sub-charter were fixed with the details “otherwise as per as the head charterparty”. The head charter had been sent to the broker together with a separate...

01/03/2011

The cost of Unrestrained Access to the Internet by the crew

It was the policy of a shipping company to upgrade the communications packages on all their time chartered and owned vessels from systems which provided e-mail and satellite telephone communications only, to systems that also...

01/03/2011

Not Following Instructions Correctly Results in Cold Spin

Six containers loaded with washing machines were destined for a Venezuelan port via a transhipment port in the same country. The ship agent at the load port incorrectly stated in the cargo manifest that the transhipment port was...

31/08/2010

The dangers of assumption

A large construction firm was undertaking building works on an island. In order to construct part of the project, a large crane was needed to be shipped by barge from the mainland. The construction company asked ITIC’s member,...

31/08/2010

Check it has been received

A shipbroker, who was a member of ITIC, was acting for a ship owner. The owners had a demurrage claim against the charterers and the charterparty contained the following time bars: 60 day notification – mid January 2008 90...

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