The Claims Review - Issue 23, March 2011

Welcome to the Spring edition of the ITIC Claims Review, which is published to coincide with the March 2011 meeting of ITIC’s Board of Directors in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ITIC periodically publish selections of cases, twice a year in this publication, and more specifically in the Wire, which have been recently handled by the Club. This edition provides a general selection of claims ITIC has resolved over the last year. We hope that these ‘case histories’ will be of interest to Members and help them identify potential claims exposure.

Claims Review 23

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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...
Fraud alert

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Fraud alert

For a number of years one of ITIC’s members had acted as a charterer’s broker for a steel trading company. They were asked to find a ship to lift a cargo of steel coils and circulated the requirement to their usual contacts. They were unable to find acceptable tonnage.

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...

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