Ship management claims examples

27/09/2011

Bad vibrations

A ship manager member of ITIC took on the management of a vessel; one of his duties under the BIMCO Shipman 98 management agreement was to provide crew for and on behalf of the owners. In 2004, whilst the vessel was heading...

01/03/2011

The cost of Unrestrained Access to the Internet by the crew

It was the policy of a shipping company to upgrade the communications packages on all their time chartered and owned vessels from systems which provided e-mail and satellite telephone communications only, to systems that also...

01/03/2011

Bunker Bungle

A commercial manager had, for several months, been operating a ship on a regular route which involved a call at Singapore, where she was usually bunkered. The commercial manager was advised by the ship owners that the ship had...

01/03/2010

Pirates plunder cash

A ship in a fleet managed by an ITIC member was boarded by Somali pirates. The pirates opened fire on the accommodation block, entered the bridge and stopped the ship. Following the pirates instructions, the ships course was...

01/03/2010

A failure to arrange insurance

A ship manager was appointed commercial manager of a ship by its time charterers on the basis of BIMCO Shipman 1998. One of the ship manager’s duties was to arrange insurances if required. The time charterer gave a written...

01/01/2009

Slow-steam ahead

A gas carrier managed by one of ITIC’s members suffered main engine damage. The owners conducted a survey on the main engine and found that the piston ring had been subject to excessive use and caused damage to the main engine....

03/03/2008

Failure to consider off-hire provisions

Members acted as technical and commercial managers for a ship that was on a time charter. The fixture still had about three years to run at a daily hire rate of USD 15,250. The charterparty contained a clause which provided that...

01/03/2007

A tale of two sea charts

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...

01/01/2007

Too tall to ship

A German commercial manager fixed eight specially designed “blade containers” from Spain to a port in southern Italy. Four of these containers were to be stowed under deck and four on deck in two tiers. During loading operations,...

01/01/2007

The wrong box

A commercial ship manager received legal papers from cargo interests in connection with a cargo claim. The commercial managers immediately notified the lawyers for the cargo interests that they were “managers only” for the ship...