World Fuel Services Corporation v The Ship "Nordems" and Others - Federal Court of Appeal (Létourneau, Nadon and Trudel JJA) - 25 February 2011

Admiralty jurisdiction - Maritime lien - American bunker suppliers providing bunkers to Korean time charterers of German-owned vessel in South Africa - Bunker supply contract governed by American law - Whether shipowners personally liable - Whether maritime lien created on vessel - Agency - Conflict of laws

(2011) 818 LMLN 2(2)

Lien, Agency

Ferryways NV v Associated British Ports – QBD (Com Ct) (Teare J) – 14 February 2008

Agency – Undisclosed principal – Contract of employment – Ship operator entering into crew management agreement – Crew management company entering into contract of employment as “Employer” with crew member – Whether crew management company entered into contract of employment as agent for ship operator – Crew member killed by tugmaster vehicle at cargo terminal while engaged in cargo operations – Terminal operator providing services on basis of stevedoring contract – P&I Club paying death benefit and repatriation expenses – Ship operator suing terminal operator for breach of stevedoring contract – Whether ship operator suffered loss – Whether terminal operator entitled to rely on exclusion and limitation clauses in stevedoring contract – Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977

(2008) 738 LMLN 1

Limitation of Liability, Agency, P and I

London Arbitration 21/07

Charterparty – Delay at loading port – Whether owners in breach of charter – Agency – Whether owners’ port agents had implied or ostensible authority to agree that vessel should adopt “quick departure” procedure – Laytime – Notice of readiness at discharge port – Charter providing for NOR to be tendered “at customary anchorage” – Vessel tendering NOR outside port limits – Whether NOR valid

Arbitration, Charter Interpretation, Agency, Laytime and Demurrage

Portolana Compania Naviera Ltd v Vitol SA (The "Afrapearl") - Court of Appeal (Ward, Clarke and Laws LJJ) - 9 July 2004

Laytime - Asbatankvoy - Vessel discharging oil at sea pipeline - Vessel having to shift from pipeline berth to anchorage as a result of leakage in pipeline caused by gap in flange - Whether counted as time consumed by vessel in moving from discharge port anchorage to discharge berth - Whether owners only entitled to half-rate demurrage on basis that gap in flange constituted breakdown of equipment - Agency expenses

(2004) 644 LMLN 1

Agency, Laytime and Demurrage

London Arbitration 5/02

The vessel was chartered on the Gencon form as amended for the carriage of a cargo of sheet piling from Holland to Ireland.

Vale Do Rio Doce Navegacao SA and anr v Shanghai Bao Steel Ocean Shipping Co Ltd (trading as Baosteel Ocean Shipping Co) and anr - QBD (Com Ct)(Thomas J) - 14 April 2000

The claimant owners alleged that they had concluded a contract of affreightment with the first defendants (‘Bao Steel’) for shipments of iron ore from Brazil to China.

Merit Shipping Co Inc v T K Boesen A/S (The 'Goodpal') - QBD (Com Ct)(Colman J) - 27 January 2000

The vessel Goodpal was chartered on the NYPE form.

Custom Cruises Inc v Home Box Office Inc - New York Supreme Court (Cozier J) - 3 December 1998

The plaintiff engaged in the business of co-ordinating and arranging specialty chartered cruises.

Petroleum Shipping Ltd v Vatis (The “Sun”) - QBD (Com Ct)(Timothy Walker J) - 9 May 1997

The defendant, Captain John T Vatis, was involved for many years in Kronos Maritime Agency SA (“Kronos Maritime”) a company managing a fleet of vessels owned by one-ship companies.

First Energy (U.K.) Ltd. v. Hungarian International Bank Ltd. - Court of Appeal (Nourse, Steyn and Evans L.JJ.) - 24 February 1993

At the trial, the issue was whether the plaintiffs had established a breach of contract relating to a loan facility to be given by the defendants to the plaintiffs.