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Three chartering brokers requested the assistance of the Club to recover US$55,400 commission unpaid by an oil trader.  The Club obtained information that the oil trader had another ship on time…

Where there is no obvious asset, such as a ship or bunkers, then other methods need to be considered.  A ship agent was owed US$75,000 by a Greek ship management company which had no obvious…

NOTIFY THE CLUB SOON - the older a debt, the harder it is to collect especially if the ship is sold or the debtor bankrupt.  In some countries the statutory time limit for collecting a debt is…

A liner agent booked a reconditioned soft drink bottling plant packed in 16 containers from Rotterdam to India.  The plant had been carefully dismantled, overhauled, and each component packed in…

A seller instructed a sale and purchase broker to find a buyer for two sister ships “with both spare propeller and tail-shaft available”.  The broker passed this to the buyer as “two sister…

When fixing a tanker to carry vegoil the charterer asked whether the tanks had been washed.  The owner’s broker telephoned the charterer’s broker to inform him that the tanks had been “washed…

An Antwerp agent booked 83 containers of vegetable oil to Blantyre, but wrongly quoted the rate for Bloemfontein.  The difference in freight amounted to US$ 250,000.  The shipper (not…

A U.S. liner agent when keying into his computer details of special instructions to the line’s terminal for the care and handling of containerised cargo, entered a “3” instead of an “8” when…

An agent mixed up two container numbers on the line’s stowage plan, which resulted in dangerous cargo, which should have been carried on deck, being stowed under deck.  When the ship reached the…

The Spanish agent for a shipping line arranged for a container which held two separate packages each containing 322 radio cassette recorders shipped from Hong Kong to be loaded on a feeder ship from…