The plaintiff was the owner and operator of the fishing vessel Marja .
On 31 March 2004 the defendant’s supply vessel Isla Azteca allided with the first plaintiff’s mobile operating drilling unit, the Totonaca , in the Bay of Campeche, some 45 miles off the Mexican coast.
The owners and/or demise charterers of the dredger Kamal XXVI and the barge Kamal XXIV (“Kamal”) brought proceedings against the owners of the ship Ariela (Ariela) arising out of a collision on 30 April 2004 between the Ariela and the barge, said to have caused the barge itself to collide with the dredger, with the alleged result of causing substantial damage to both barge and dredger, leading to very considerable consequential loss.
On 8 March 2007 the 107,849 ton containership MSC Joanna, owned by a Panamanian corporation and chartered by MSC, a Swiss corporation, collided with a 33,423 ton dredge, owned and chartered by Netherlands corporations (“Boskalis”).
On 24 September 2007 the claimants’ seismic survey vessel Western Neptune was towing a spread of 10 streamers and six gun arrays when the defendant’s vessel
On 17 October 2005 the vessels Pearl of Jebel Ali ( “Jebel Ali” ) and Pride of Al Salam 95 ( “Al Salam” ) collided in the Suez Canal, as a result of which Al Salam sank.
In September 2007 the claimants’ seismic survey vessel Western Neptune was carrying out a survey in the Gulf of Mexico.
On 17 March 2007 the vessels Hui Rong and the Peng Yan collided off Zhou Shan Dao.
On 15 October 2003 the Staten Island ferry Andrew H Barberi, operated by the City of New York, crashed into a maintenance pier, killing 11 passengers and injuring many others.
On 23 February 2002 two motor vessels collided on the Coomera River. One was driven by the plaintiff and the other by the first defendant and owned by the second defendant.
