Claims examples

In Ship broking

02/08/1998

DEBTOR SENT TO PRISON

An English ship broker remitted a balance of hire of US$ 30,000 twice to his European counter- part.  In spite of many promises the European shipbroker failed to pay back the funds and court proceedings were commenced. ...

02/08/1998

BROKER CUT - OUT

Norwegian ship brokers via a London broker, commenced negotiations for the sale of a tanker to a Greek buyer.  Discussions continued for several months until the shipowner went bankrupt and the ship was taken over by a...

02/08/1998

SEIZURE OF BUNKERS TO RECOVER COMMISSION

Three chartering brokers requested the assistance of the Club to recover US$55,400 commission unpaid by an oil trader.  The Club obtained information that the oil trader had another ship on time charter and tracked her to...

31/05/1999

A simple switch of words – US$150,000

A seller instructed a sale and purchase broker to find a buyer for two sister ships “with both spare propeller and tail-shaft available”.  The broker passed this to the buyer as “two sister ships for sale … both with spare...

31/05/1999

Message on mobile – US$900,000

When fixing a tanker to carry vegoil the charterer asked whether the tanks had been washed.  The owner’s broker telephoned the charterer’s broker to inform him that the tanks had been “washed but not fresh water...

31/05/1999

Misrepresentation of charterers

A London ship broker acting for a Turkish charterer, arranged a fixture, through an intermediate broker in Denmark, of a ship to load bagged urea at Istanbul.  The charterer provided information about his financial...

31/05/1999

Too broad in the beam

A ship was fixed, via an Italian ship broker, to carry steel pipes from Toronto to Garston, United Kingdom.  The day after the fixture had been concluded it was realised that the Italian broker had given the discharge port...

03/01/2000

Mailbox mix-up

A charterer invited tenders for a long term time charter. The Member, a ship broker, sent his principal’s bid via an industry message system to the charterers mailbox in the United States. The bid was, of course, commercially...

03/01/2000

Look before you lunch

In order to meet a shipment deadline on a feeder service, cargo had to be booked by twelve noon. The agent, however, went out to lunch without checking his e-mail messages until his return at 2pm. The booking had been received in...

03/01/2000

Corrupted counters

A ship broker was negotiating the details of a fixture directly with two principals. The final clause on an offer ended in two separate paragraphs, each of two lines. When the broker forwarded the message the system ignored the...

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