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Shipping case digest - February 2018

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Welcome to this month’s edition of our shipping case digest, providing you with concise and useful summaries of recent legal decisions in the shipping market.

The “LADY M”: barratry, fire and other exemptions under the Hague-Visby Rules

This recent case concerns cargo owners’ claim for salvage costs from ship owners for alleged breach of the contract(s) of carriage… read more

Lukoil -v- Ocean Tankers: ‘Demurrage claims’ and time bar 

An appeal from an arbitration award in relation to whether a ‘“time lost waiting for orders claim”’ was a ‘“demurrage claim”’ for the purposes of engaging the documentary time bar clause in a voyage charter…read more

Phones 4U Limited -v- EE Limited: sailing away from typical contractual termination principles

This latest case on termination has important implications for those looking to terminate charterparties… read more

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Are you MRV ready?

Environmental law within the shipping sector is becoming a concern for many. With this article, the first of a new series on environmental shipping law, we consider the amended Regulation 20165/757 which imposes new monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) obligations of emissions for voyages within the European Union territory… read more

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