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01/03/2007
ITIC received notice of a claim faced by a liner agent at an African port. The agent had arranged for cargo to be delivered to an inland destination in a forty foot container leased by his principal. In due course a forty foot...
Millions of containers are sent around the world, being offloaded and reloaded onto different ships at different hub ports, and 99.9% of them arrive at the right place, on time and undamaged. However, inevitably there are...
A naval architect was instructed by the owner of a vessel to investigate the cause of continued cracking in the hull. The report produced by the naval architect attributed the blame to the original architects for their...
A tanker had changed from hard copy sea charts to electronic sea charts and it was a Flag State requirement that the second officer had an ECDIS Certificate. Unfortunately the ship manager overlooked this requirement and the...
A marine surveyor received instructions to advise on the stowage and lifting of a tug to be carried onboard a ship from the Far East to Europe. The marine surveyor provided advice as to how the cradle, in which the tug was to be...
A surveyor in Australia was appointed by a bank. The instructions provided to the surveyor were clear. They were to confirm the value of the vessel being built at a local yard and to certify to the bank when additional funds...
Over the years, ITIC has arrested many vessels in order to recover outstanding debts for Members. Where an undisputed debt is involved the majority of arrests result in the debt being paid immediately by the vessel’s owner or...
A shipbroker fixed a vessel to carry soya from Argentina with a choice of two discharge ranges: Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Gulf. While the vessel was loading, the receivers advised that the discharge port was...
01/01/2007
A broker in northern Europe was appointed by the owner to exclusively market a tanker. A voyage charterparty was arranged for the carriage of 20,000 metric tonnes of vegetable oil from the US Gulf to the Mediterranean....
A sugar trader booked a part cargo of 6,000 mt bagged sugar at Durban for Aqaba for on-selling to Iraq, where there was a severe sugar shortage. The charterparty contained the clause “first in/last out” which normally means the...