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Ship managers acted as managers of a vessel for a number of years until it was sold. When it was delivered in Northern Europe to the buyers, Class suspended the vessel’s approvals due the state of…

Ship brokers in Asia were due commission on the sale of a vessel for scrap. The buyers performance of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was guaranteed by their Hong Kong based affiliate. The MoA was…

This claim involved one cargo owner, two brokers working at different offices, and three shipowners. The cargo owners and shipowner number one had a COA. Shipowner number one was unable to use his…

It was the weekend and a member of a tanker broker’s operations staff was not on duty. A message was received on their phone, which was linked to their individual email address. The email was sent…

A South American port agent acted for a ship that discharged a bulk cargo at his port. There was a cargo shortage in an amount that exceeded the customs allowance, which meant that there would be…

In 2007, an offshore consultant performed a site assessment for a jackup crane barge. The site was known to have some inherent difficulties for jack-up operations due to the underlying layer of soft…

Ship broker fixed a vessel for an initial period of 3 months with subsequent optional periods of 3 months. The optional periods were declarable 30 days prior to expiry of the preceding period. The…

A Scandinavian port agent was asked by the owners of a ship to provide a proforma disbursement account for a call at their port. When the final disbursement account was sent to the owners, they…

A commercial manager fixed a ship that had been under his management for several years for a project voyage to Finland. After the fixture had been concluded, the owners objected to the fixture as the…

A pool manager misdescribed a tanker as being acceptable to a specific oil major, even though he had received an email from the head owners prior to fixing that stated she had been rejected by them.…