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Shipping case digest January 2021

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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.

In this case, the court found that interest, administration fees and legal costs relating to unpaid bunker supplies fell within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court…read more

The court considered an application to set aside an award regarding the tribunal’s jurisdiction and its ruling on a time bar issue…read more

In this case, the court considered an appeal to an arbitral award in which the tribunal had held that cargo owners were not liable to pay general average in respect of a ransom payment made to pirates for the release of the vessel…read more

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