Topics include discussions on:
- MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA v Conti 11 Container Schiffahrts-GmbH & Co KG MS “MSC Flaminia” [2025] UKSC 14: Supreme Court decision offers crucial clarification on how the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 should be interpreted and applied.
- Manta Penyez Shipping Inc & another v Zuhoor Alsaeed Foodstuff Company (Manta Penyez) [2025] EWHC 353 (Comm): Court grants final anti-suit injunction on the basis of third-party rights against cargo interests where foreign proceedings were pursued in breach of LMAA arbitration clauses in the underlying voyage charterparty and bank guarantee.
- Chugga Chugg Pty Ltd v Privinvest Holding SAL [2025] EWHC 585 (Comm): the Commercial Court rules on liability under a parent company guarantee in relation to a terminated shipbuilding contract.
- Mare Nova Inc v Zhangjiagang Jiushun Ship Engineering Co Ltd [2025] EWHC 223 (Comm): a successful appeal from an arbitration for serious irregularity in relation to a claim concerning allegedly defective repairs by a shipyard.
- Tanga Pharmaceuticals Plastics Ltd v Emirates Shipping Line FZE (Alion) [2025] EWHC 368 (Comm): in which the High Court found contractual incorporation of the Hague Rules, including art.III r.6 and r.8, by a clause paramount in bill of lading contracts prevailed over inconsistent time bar provisions in the bills requiring fully documented claims to be submitted to the carrier within 20 days of delivery and providing for suit to be brought in time only where process had actually been served.
- AMS Ameropa Marketing and Sales AG v Ocean Unity Navigation Inc [2024] EWCA Civ 1312: Court of Appeal decision concerning a claim against a shipowner for recovery of losses arising from cargo damage, concerning whether credit had to be given for a payment made by way of credit note under a salvage arrangement
