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One berth, two buyers

A berth broker member was engaged by an owner of a berth to sell it on his behalf. Negotiations commenced with one buyer who continually required changes to the memorandum of agreement (moa)

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

Check it has been received

A shipbroker, who was a member of ITIC, was acting for a ship owner. The owners had a demurrage claim against the charterers and the charterparty contained the following time bars: 60 day

Fixture on behalf of non-existent or fictitious principal

Chartering brokers fixed a vessel on behalf of charterers in Panama.  The vessel was time chartered for a voyage from Far Eastern ports to Arabian Gulf and Red Sea ports. Soon after loading had

Agent sued for principal's debts

The agents were appointed as general agents in the UK for liner operators who went bankrupt owing approximately £7 million to their creditors. As is not unusual in such cases, some creditors of the

Lloyd's Agent's liability for cargo survey

A Lloyd's agent was instructed to carry out pre-shipment surveys on twelve consignments of frozen swordfish chunks and the surveys were completed over a period of approximately four months.  The

Release of container of TV sets without original B/L

The German agent of a Far Eastern shipping line took delivery of four 40 foot containers, each holding 368 TV sets.  Each container was covered by a separate B/L which showed 'C' as the shipper

Nineteenth-century yacht sinks

A marine surveyor was instructed to determine the suitability for towage to a drydock of a steel hulled yacht built in the nineteenth century.  The surveyor produced his preliminary report which

RULE 5 - Indemnity

Has the cargo owner authorised release in writing? A Turkish liner agent was requested by the receiver of 12 containers of frozen meat shipped from Denmark to deliver them without original bills of

BROKER CUT - OUT

Norwegian ship brokers via a London broker, commenced negotiations for the sale of a tanker to a Greek buyer.  Discussions continued for several months until the shipowner went bankrupt and the