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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

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

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

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...

31/05/1999

Commercial manager caught by “scatter gun”

The sinking of a cargo ship with tragic loss of life resulted in large claims by the bereaved families. As the port of loading had been in the USA, an American lawyer, employing the usual “scatter gun” approach,...

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Fax to a wrong number – US$ 500,000

A simple switch of words – US$150,000

Message on mobile – US$900,000

Wrong line – US$250,000

Wrong number – US$150,000

Yet another wrong number – US$600,000

Not one but two packages

Misrepresentation of charterers

Too broad in the beam

Commercial manager caught by “scatter gun”

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