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A Scandinavian ship agent was requested by a ship owner to issue bills of lading for a cargo of new steel coils of Turkish origin which were loaded in Turkey in November 1987. The cargo was in fact

An employee of 20 years standing used the customs bond of a Belgian ship agent to smuggle consignments of T-shirts of Chinese origin into the European Union. The T-shirts, which had arrived in

A North American ship agent acted for a shipping line over a twelve year period. During the period of the agency, the agent had paid local suppliers on behalf of the line, but was not reimbursed

A naval architect was instructed by the owner of a vessel to investigate the cause of continued cracking in the hull. The report produced by the naval architect attributed the blame to the original

An error by a chartering broker during charterparty negotations resulted in a large claim.  A chemical tanker was fixed to load a part cargo at a designated berth in a terminal which could only

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

A commercial manager arranged for a ship to load cargo at a port which the ship had not previously called and of which neither the commercial manager or the ship owner had any previous experience.

A marine chemist carried out routine testing of a cargo of methanol when a vessel docked for discharge. This routine procedure involved drawing samples from each of the tanks. From each of these

A ship agent overlooked the filing of some customs documentation for two containers of bananas due to be loaded on a ship in the Caribbean. Due to this error, the two containers remained in

A ship agent in the USA failed to update a local tug company of a change to a vessel’s departure time. This resulted in the tug being prematurely dispatched to assist the ship. The tug company