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01/03/2006

Regulatory demands

There has been a rise in the regulatory burden facing all those in the marine industry. This pattern is likely to continue. Often the practical task of ensuring compliance falls on the ship agent and regulators are increasingly...

01/03/2006

Design collapsed

A naval architect was appointed to oversee the design and build of a cradle to be used for the “slipping” of a floating restaurant out of the water for routine maintenance. The wheels of the cradle collapsed whilst the vessel was...

01/03/2006

Physical limits

A ship agent in the Far East was approached by an owner asking for details of the maximum draft at a jetty at the port. The person in the agent’s office who usually dealt with calls at the jetty had recently left the agent’s...

01/03/2006

Possibly the first arrest

ITIC has assisted a shipbroker to obtain, what we believe, is the first arrest of a ship in a Commonwealth law jurisdiction for unpaid commission. The shipbroker had commenced London arbitration proceedings in accordance with the...

01/03/2006

Not our bills

Ship agents based in South America found themselves being pursued by owners of a ship that they had never represented. The claim was for legal costs that those owners incurred for filing a response to legal proceedings issued by...

01/11/2005

TWENTY TWO YEARS IN TAIWAN

ITIC has just concluded its oldest case. This involved a ship agent in Taiwan, who acted for the call of a tanker at Kaohsiung in 1982. Part of the ship’s cargo – 500 metric tonnes of Toluene Di- Isocyanate (TDI) - was...

01/11/2005

STEVEDORE SLIPS

During loading at Los Angeles, a ship’s master received a report of an injury to a stevedore, who had allegedly slipped on a patch of grease on board. The master notified the ship manager of the incident; the master also noted...

01/11/2005

VIOLATION OF THE US 24-HOUR RULE

A container of whisky was booked from Felixstowe to New York. Since 2002 it has been a requirement that carriers must provide full details of all containerised cargo shipped to a US port from a foreign port to the US Bureau of...

01/11/2005

A BURNT OUT CASE

After a survey on her electrics, a yacht was purchased and taken to a yard to be refurbished. After further inspection, the yard reported that there was in fact substantial damage to her wiring and that a complete rewiring was...

01/11/2005

RIOTOUSLY USEFUL COVER

There are occasions when events outside a ship broker’s control can scupper the hard work which has secured a fixture. A tanker broker fixed a ship on a voyage basis to lift two million barrels of crude oil in Nigeria for...

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Regulatory demands

Design collapsed

Physical limits

Possibly the first arrest

Not our bills

TWENTY TWO YEARS IN TAIWAN

STEVEDORE SLIPS

VIOLATION OF THE US 24-HOUR RULE

A BURNT OUT CASE

RIOTOUSLY USEFUL COVER

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