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Where there is no obvious asset, such as a ship or bunkers, then other methods need to be considered.  A ship agent was owed US$75,000 by a Greek ship management company which had no obvious

During a routine external audit, a South American ship agent discovered that part of the freights collected from shippers on behalf of a principal had not been deposited in the agent's bank account.

ITIC has just concluded its oldest case. This involved a ship agent in Taiwan, who acted for the call of a tanker at Kaohsiung in 1982. Part of the ship’s cargo – 500 metric tonnes of Toluene Di-

Following a voyage to South America, cargo receivers commenced an action against the ship owner for damage to cargo. The ship owner’s P&I Club appointed its local correspondent (a Member of

THE CLUB recently handled two claims where the error involved a mistake by an agent over whether the ship or cargo should proceed in a north or southbound direction. The third claim in this section

An English port agent was nominated by a charterer with whom they did significant amounts of business. The agent was instructed by the charterer to release a steel cargo without production of the

A broker was acting for the owner of a vessel trading in the Mediterranean. When considering an offer from charterers, which included the term “time from 1700 Thursday or a day preceding a holiday

Ship owners entered an agreement to carry a number of wind turbines. They instructed one of ITIC’s naval architect members to carry out work to enable the vessel to load the highest possible number

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,

ITIC has seen an increasing number of claims on its shipbroking members relating to the receipt and forwarding of messages. The following claim demonstrates the importance of accurate record keeping