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01/01/2003
A UK liner agent booked the carriage of an electrical cable from Southampton to Singapore via Felixstowe. During the inland trucking of the cable to the port, the cable struck the underside of a road bridge. The cable was...
The broker for a charterer was informed by his principal that he owned tugs, shore facilities and other assets. The broker passed this information to the owner without mentioning that the information had been received direct from...
A ship agent in the Middle East agreed to "look after" two old Russian flag ships prior to sale. This decision cost the Club a large amount of money. Parties from the Middle East, who were owed approximately...
A commercial manager took over a newly built container ship from a Chinese shipyard and arranged a first charter to a Korean company. The charter called for the ship to proceed to load her first cargo at Keelung, Taiwan and...
73 containers were carried from Saudi Arabia to Benghazi on a "free-out" basis (i.e. all port charges to be paid by the consignee). However, due to a clerical error on the part of the line's agent in Saudi Arabia, the...
The most common claims against tanker brokers involve demurrage statements which have been received by the ship broker, but allegedly, not passed on to the charterers within the time limit set out in the charterparty. ITIC...
31/07/2001
The chief engineer of a ship was airlifted to a hospital in the Arabian Gulf suffering from appendicitis. The ship manager had to replace him before the ship could sail. A chief engineer with impeccable references and...
A ship agent in the Middle East released 31 containers against receipt of NVOC bills of lading after receiving a telex from the loadport agent informing him that freight had been collected and the Line's bills of lading were in...
For a number of months a ship broker made hire payments under a time charter directly to the owner, although the broker had previously dealt with the ship's manager. When the broker received an instruction from the manager to pay...
A ship agent who threatened to detain a ship because the owner had not remitted disbursements, allowed the ship to sail when he received a telex confirmation from a well known UK bank that the disbursements had been remitted. The...