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A shipbroker Member in Italy, acting on behalf of a Swiss charterer, fixed a ship to carry a cargo of soya pellets from Argentina to Tunisia with arrival at the load port to be between 18 and 22…

A Member was appointed as technical ship manager of a cruise ship for a period of 2 1/2 years and thereafter was only responsible for placing the hull and P&I insurances and handling claims. A…

1. Consider at all times with whom you are negotiating.  Have you dealt with them before?  If in doubt check with the Club. 2. If requested to pass on information about any company to…

A cruise ship suffered a breakdown of both main engines due to contaminated lube oil and the owners submitted their claim for US$ 3million to their hull underwriters, who rejected it on the grounds…

Ship agents in Hamburg informed the Club in 1987 that they had been joined as joint defendants in court proceedings in Italy concerning unpaid customs duties.  Investigations revealed that an…

A Danish liner agent  booked four reefer containers of margarine from the same manufacturer, destined for two different consignees in different towns in Russia.  Two of the containers held…

A marine surveyor and occasional P&I correspondent was requested by a P&I Club to attend on board a ship to survey a cargo of 2,000 metric tonnes bulk fertiliser, which had been contaminated…

Brokers had acted on behalf of charterers in respect of a voyage charter from Nigeria to the US Gulf.  In subsequently negotiating the terms of a preliminary round trip whereby the charterers…

A German liner agent took a booking for 10,000 mt. of steel rails from Hamburg to China to be moved in three separate parcels of 5,000, 2,000 and 3,000 tonnes.  The agent had put forward details…

The American agent for a cruise ship was on the receiving end of a legal suit from two stevedores.  In the course of loading baggage on the ship, the stevedores had met a friend in the ship's…