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In the ten years from 2000 to 2010 claims against liner agents for errors in passing on reefer temperatures for refrigerated containers or failure to arrange for reefers to be plugged in to the…

A commercial manager had, for several months, been operating a ship on a regular route which involved a call at Singapore, where she was usually bunkered. The commercial manager was advised by the…

For a number of years one of ITIC’s members had acted as a charterer’s broker for a steel trading company. They were asked to find a ship to lift a cargo of steel coils and circulated the requirement…

Shipbrokers arranged a sub-charter. As is usual the main terms of the sub-charter were fixed with the details “otherwise as per as the head charterparty”. The head charter had been sent to the…

It was the policy of a shipping company to upgrade the communications packages on all their time chartered and owned vessels from systems which provided e-mail and satellite telephone communications…

Six containers loaded with washing machines were destined for a Venezuelan port via a transhipment port in the same country. The ship agent at the load port incorrectly stated in the cargo manifest…

Twenty-six containers were discharged in Antwerp and the port agents were requested by the consignees' forwarder to quote the daily demurrage rate per box.  Their principal's rate was US$ 42 per…

Liner agents were authorised by shippers to deliver a consignment of frozen chickens to receivers against a bank guarantee.  The bank guarantee was received covering 112,309 kilos of frozen…

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…

Clearing agents were asked by their principals to complete the Customs formalities for a cargo of  fuel oil which included reclaiming duty amounting to £48,341 under the EC tariff  quota…