The Claims Review - Issue 38, April 2018

Claims Review 38
Claims Review 38 (simplified Chinese)
Claims Review 38 (traditional Chinese)

Lifeboat overboard...

24/04/2018

Lifeboat overboard...

A lifeboat was discovered to be missing by the crew at 07.00 one morning. It had evidently fallen overboard during the preceding night. The Master reported the lifeboat as missing and it was eventually found drifting off the port of Naze in Japan.
Option omission

24/04/2018

Option omission

Ship brokers fixed a charter party that contained an option for a second voyage. They failed to pass on the charterer’s message declaring the second leg option which had to be declared upon completion of loading of the first voyage.

24/04/2018

Dunnage disposal

A ship agent in Australia was asked by their principal to arrange for the disposal of dunnage and other materials related to the packing of cargo upon the ship’s arrival. Australia has strict local quarantine regulations.
Not strong enough

24/04/2018

Not strong enough

A naval architect was asked to provide plans for modifications to a section of a racing yacht which was under construction. When providing the plans, they misstated the amount of carbon fibre tissue that was required to provide greater strength in the hull by stating that 400g was required instead of 600g. While this was not held to have led to any critical weakness within the hull, the owners decided to reinforce the hull by adding the missing carbon fibre during the winter season.
Bollards blamed

24/04/2018

Bollards blamed

A pool manager fixed a ship on the basis that it could transit the new Panama Canal. The ships in that fleet were all of a size to be able to transit the canal and the pool manager believed that all the ships were equipped appropriately for Panama Canal transit.
Over load / under water

24/04/2018

Over load / under water

A surveyor in Canada was contracted to provide a load and stow survey for a barge of steel.

24/04/2018

Soggy seeds in salvage sale

A cargo recovery agent was engaged in relation to three containers of seeds that had arrived wet. The cargo had a total value of US$145,000.
Unstable survey ship

24/04/2018

Unstable survey ship

A naval architect was appointed by the builders of an 8m hydrographic survey vessel to approve the vessel’s design and stability in accordance with prescribed standards.

24/04/2018

Crossed pipes

A maritime engineering consultant was engaged on a Boil-Off Gas (commonly referred to as “BOG”) Compressor Project. Their involvement included the design of the oil lube pump piping in the compressors. They prepared construction drawings and the oil lube pump piping was built in accordance with those drawings.
Premature pilot

24/04/2018

Premature pilot

A port agent was nominated by the charterers in respect of the loading of a cargo at an Australian port.
Agent in the dock

24/04/2018

Agent in the dock

Port agents in Hong Kong represented a container ship calling at Kwai Chung Container Terminal. Once discharge and loading operations were completed the ship sailed for her next port, Shanghai. During the call a service engineer had disembarked to return to his home town.
Manifest mistake

24/04/2018

Manifest mistake

A liner agent was responsible for cargo booking, ship handling and the completion of documentation on behalf of their principal. On six separate occasions during a three month period the cargo manifest had been incomplete on the line’s system.

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