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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.…

A ferry operating in North America was due to be towed to a shipyard to undergo a refit. A marine surveyor was engaged by the shipyard to undertake a “fit for tow” survey and provide a certificate of…

A Canadian naval architect contracted to provide design advice for the modification to a refrigeration system in the refrigeration-compressor room of a fishing vessel. The modifications were…

A naval architect was appointed to design a barge, that was intended to be used as a floating restaurant. There were stability issues stemming from the fact that the architect had failed to take into…

The clearance of import containers discharged at a Saudi Arabian port was delayed by two months due to the local ship agent’s inability to submit the import manifest in respect of the containers and…

Ship agents can predict their financial exposure to the usual costs of a port call but there are occasions when unexpected developments mean the final disbursement account is far greater than could…

FONASBA and BIMCO have recently published a new agreement for use by ship agents. The agreement is intended to cover one-off port calls and sets out the parties’ obligations in a short and simple…

The Turkish office of an international agency group was appointed to handle a ship’s call at their local port. The owner was an existing customer of the group but had not called at that Turkish port…