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For a number of months a ship broker made hire payments under a time charter directly to the owner, although the broker had previously dealt with the ship's manager. When the broker received an…

A ship agent who threatened to detain a ship because the owner had not remitted disbursements, allowed the ship to sail when he received a telex confirmation from a well known UK bank that the…

An Irish ship agent was asked by a crewing agent to look after the transfer of 8 crew from Dublin to London, where they would join a ship. This unusual request aroused the agent's suspicions and he…

An African ship agent released four containers without production of original bills of lading in exchange for four letters of indemnity apparently counter-signed by a local bank. Subsequent checks…

A UK ship agent inadvertently delivered a container of brand name batteries without taking the original bill of lading in exchange. After two weeks of constant pressure from the ship agent to provide…

A Scandinavian ship agent was requested by a ship owner to issue bills of lading for a cargo of new steel coils of Turkish origin which were loaded in Turkey in November 1987. The cargo was in fact…

A ship broker received a telephone call from his usual contact at a Far Eastern bank, expressing surprise at the high level of values the ship broker had placed on two ships. The broker asked for a…

A sale and purchase broker had acted for the Scandinavian sellers of a small cruise ship. An Australian company had signed a Memorandum of Agreement but had failed to pay the deposit or take any…

Members may come under pressure to collude in a fraud, particularly by issuing bills of lading which contain incorrect information, often to comply with the terms of a Letter of Credit. We mean the…

Three containers of electrical goods worth US$380,000 were shipped from the Far East to South Africa, and from there by rail to another African country. The agent at the discharge port released all…