1837 results:

Recovery of unpaid disbursements

Port agents requested the assistance of the Club to recover unpaid disbursements amounting to £24,900.  The owners operated a fleet of approximately 40 ships, each of which was owned by a

ITIC urges shipmanagers to review their liability limitation provisions

Ahead of an impending revision of the standard industry shipmanagement agreement, the International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) has urged shipmanagers to limit their liability to a sum which

What price steel

A German liner agent took a booking for 10,000 mt. of steel rails from Hamburg to China to be moved in three separate parcels of 5,000, 2,000 and 3,000 tonnes.  The agent had put forward details

ITIC warns on pitfalls of Master Service Agreements

INTERNATIONAL Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) has warned its members about the potential pitfalls associated with entering into Master Service Agreements with their clients. A Master Service

RULE 2 - Bills of Lading

Always obtain the correct b/l A liner agent in Denmark, having obtained an original bill of lading, authorised the release of a container of computer parts to a consignee in Russia, without noticing

Press release: Don’t forget to inform customs, warns ITIC

Press release: Don’t forget to inform customs, warns ITIC

A recent claim handled by ITIC (International Transport Intermediaries Club) reinforces the need for attention to detail when making changes to an ocean freight booking. In this instance, a

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

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

Double arrest

When one of the branch offices of a multinational ship agent contacted the Club in respect of a large outstanding disbursement account, the ship concerned was tracked and arrested. The owners paid up

Addendum Omission

Shipbrokers arranged a sub-charter. As is often the case the main terms of the sub-charter were fixed with the details “otherwise as per as the head charterparty”. The sub-charterer asked for a