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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…

Brokers were authorised by charterers in South America to fix a ship for a time charter voyage from Uruguay to Peru with a cargo of bagged rice.  The charterer stipulated that the ship had to…

The ship agent took delivery of a container of nickel silver scrap valued at US$ 34,222.80 on arrival at Calcutta from Kaohsiung.  Shortly after arrival the consignee, a sole trader, called at…

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…

The carriers of a cargo of 21 x 40' containers of acetate tow, which was discharged at a U.S. port from Brazil, instructed their local agents to arrange for the goods to be reloaded into containers…

The agent in Thailand was appointed to act for the Hong Kong owners of a ship which called at Bangkok to load a cargo of 13,300 MT of bagged rice for discharge in West Africa.  On completion of…

Member, acting as agent for the carrier, arranged for the provision of a tank container to a wine exporter for the shipment of 21,000 litres of wine from Australia to the USA.  On arrival, the…

A liner agent Member in the UK received two separate requests from the same glass manufacturer for opentop containers to be positioned at their premises for loading with high-tech glass and…

A liner agent Member in Australia was asked to quote for the freight payable on a number of containers of wool from Melbourne to Annaba, Algeria.  A price of AUD 211 per 1000 kgs was quoted…

A shipbroker Member acted for owners in the fixing of their ship to charterers.  Unfortunately, when describing the cargo capacity of the ship, the figure of 119,995 cubic metres was given by…