Claims examples

In Ship agency

01/01/1997

Inebriated stevedores taken on cruise

The American agent for a cruise ship was on the receiving end of a legal suit from two stevedores.  In the course of loading baggage on the ship, the stevedores had met a friend in the ship's bar and joined him for a drink...

02/08/1998

MORE THAN ONE PRINCIPAL? WHO PAYS?

In a recent case, a ship agent in the Far East was nominated by the voyage charterer (a well known trading house) to be the agent for the disponent owner (a well known and reputable shipping company).  The agent sent his...

02/08/1998

GETTING THERE IN THE END

Where there is no obvious asset, such as a ship or bunkers, then other methods need to be considered.  A ship agent was owed US$75,000 by a Greek ship management company which had no obvious assets apart from a hydrofoil...

31/05/1999

Fax to a wrong number – US$ 500,000

A liner agent booked a reconditioned soft drink bottling plant packed in 16 containers from Rotterdam to India.  The plant had been carefully dismantled, overhauled, and each component packed in numbered sequence for...

31/05/1999

Wrong line – US$250,000

An Antwerp agent booked 83 containers of vegetable oil to Blantyre, but wrongly quoted the rate for Bloemfontein.  The difference in freight amounted to US$ 250,000.  The shipper (not unnaturally) accepted the quote and...

31/05/1999

Wrong number – US$150,000

A U.S. liner agent when keying into his computer details of special instructions to the line’s terminal for the care and handling of containerised cargo, entered a “3” instead of an “8” when recording the number of a container to...

31/05/1999

Yet another wrong number – US$600,000

An agent mixed up two container numbers on the line’s stowage plan, which resulted in dangerous cargo, which should have been carried on deck, being stowed under deck.  When the ship reached the hub port, smoke was emerging...

31/05/1999

Not one but two packages

The Spanish agent for a shipping line arranged for a container which held two separate packages each containing 322 radio cassette recorders shipped from Hong Kong to be loaded on a feeder ship from a Spanish port to the final...

31/05/1999

Warm orange juice

When port employees went on strike at a South American port, 50 containers of orange juice had to wait two weeks on the dock until the next ship sailed.  The sheer volume of reefer cargo which congested the strike-bound port...

31/05/1999

Wrong box

Two consignments, each of 712 cartons of children’s shoes, were carried on the same ship from Shanghai to Kotka, Finland, under two bills of lading with similar numbers.  When the Shanghai agent was authorised by the shipper...

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