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Shipbrokers involved in negotiating period business received a revised description from the owners. The difference was that the original description described the ship as doing “abt 14 knots on abt

A ship manager oversaw the repairs of a ship at a shipyard in China. On August 10th 2018 the ship manager received an email from “Azula” at the shipyard concerning the first payment due for the

A shipbroker mistakenly understood that owners had agreed to discount the overage rate by 50%, meaning that cargo loaded above 66,000MT would be charged at US$13.5 per MT instead of US$27 per MT.

Following the discharge of the cargo from a ship a shipbroker was presented with an invoice for heating expenses amounting to US$ 70,000 by the owners to be passed on to the charterers. However, the

Ship agents and shipbrokers gathered in Taipei last November for a risk management and loss prevention seminar hosted by the ROC National Association of Shipping Agencies. Speakers were

The cargo manifests were inputted onto a port system 13 minutes past the deadline for 200 containers. As a result, when the ship arrived into port, the port did not know where to direct the

A ship agent in Central America was arranging for a ship to call at two separate ports before the final destination. Shortly before loading the agent received revised instructions that 10 containers

Surveyors rarely receive instructions from their actual client. Instructions are received by insurance brokers, P&I claim handlers, lawyers or managers on behalf of their client. Sometimes, as

A ship agent received a spreadsheet from their principal showing the ship on which cargoes had been originally loaded in one column and which of two subsequent feeder ships that would be used to

A London ship broker acting for a Turkish charterer, arranged a fixture, through an intermediate broker in Denmark, of a ship to load bagged urea at Istanbul.  The charterer provided