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31/08/2004

Repairs in the wrong name

Scandinavian ship managers were appointed as technical managers of a tanker owned by a K/S limited partnership. The management agreement was originally between the ship managers and the shipowning company but was subsequently...

31/08/2004

Damages bill

While berthing at a UK port, a Turkish owned ship struck the jetty. The agents passed the port’s repair bill of GBP37,850 to the owners. Nothing further was heard from the owners for a period of months. The port repeatedly...

31/08/2004

Not up river

A commercial manager in Germany was instructed by the owners of a ship under management not to fix cargo for this ship for voyages up the River Rhone. This followed previous bad experience of a sister ship having been delayed in...

31/08/2004

One booking or three?

A German agent for Chinese shipping company received an enquiry regarding the shipment of steel rails in three consignments from Hamburg to Huangpu. The agent’s principal quoted a price of US$65 per tonne and this was passed to...

01/03/2004

Wrong form

A surveying company recruited a senior staff member from a rival who brought a major client to his new firm. The surveyor used an existing reporting format. Shortly after the surveyor started his new job his employers received a...

01/01/2003

Unpaid Suez canal dues

A ship passed through the Suez Canal, and the agent's principal, a Canadian charterer who he had acted for on several previous occasions, confirmed that the transit fees of US$100,000 payable to the Suez Canal Authority had been...

01/01/2003

Tanker broker’s disappearing principal

A tanker broker, who had moved from a large firm to a smaller one, was pleasantly surprised when a charterer client of his former employer approached him asking the broker to take over his account.  The charterer told the...

01/01/2003

Double arrest

When one of the branch offices of a multinational ship agent contacted the Club in respect of a large outstanding disbursement account, the ship concerned was tracked and arrested. The owners paid up immediately, and the ship was...

01/01/2003

Ship arrest in Senegal

Several offices of a large ship agency had provided services to a shipowner's owned ships and to one that had been chartered-in. Outstanding fees and disbursements totalled nearly US$200,000. Several months later, the shipowner...

01/01/2003

Forwarder’s booking note

A Belgian port agent accepted a booking from a local forwarder for his principal's sailing to North Africa.  He then received a document headed "Liner Booking Note" from the forwarder setting out the terms of the...

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