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Tribunal considers broker’s authority to fix vessel on behalf of owners

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 7 2013

The Tribunal was required to decide whether the parties to the arbitration had in fact concluded a fixture. At the time they were both interested in

Tribunal considers issues of estoppel where a Singapore court had already concluded that the respondents were not in fact charterers of the subject vessel

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Singapore
  • -
  • May 7 2013

Disputes arose under a time charter. Owners commenced arbitration proceedings, contending that the Respondents, a company incorporated in St Vincent

Is payment of hire a condition: a long-standing controversy resolved

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 18 2013

On 18 April 2013, Flaux J handed down his judgment in Kuwait Rocks Co v AMN Bulkcarriers Inc (The Astra). The judgment provides long-awaited

Court considers charterparty construction in respect of freight payable on overage

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 8 2013

The appeal in BP Oil International Ltd v Target Shipping Ltd 2013 EWCA Civ 196 concerned the amount of overage freight payable by Charterers to

Disponent owners denied indemnity from charterers for US freight tax paid to head owners

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 8 2013

The vessel was the subject of a head and sub charter, both of which provided at clause 83 as follows: “All taxes andor dues on cargofreight andor

New IMO regulation and amendment to SOLAS: corrosion protection of crude oil tanks

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • September 11 2012

Following several incidents resulting from structural failure in oil tankers, the Maritime Safety Committee of the IMO has made mandatory certain performance standards aimed at inhibiting corrosion in cargo oil tanks

Iran and Syria - sanctions update

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, Iran, Syria, USA
  • -
  • January 26 2012

The latest sanctions against Iran have been much publicized and are set against a backdrop of Iranian officials threatening to escalate the situation further by blocking the Strait of Hormuz

The Inter-Club Agreement: amendments relating to security come into force on 1 September 2011

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • August 26 2011

The Inter-Club Agreement, which was last amended in 1996 (the "1996 Agreement"), has been further amended to incorporate a new provision dealing with the entitlement to security for cargo claims

Court of Appeal considers various issues relating to when the Part 36 costs consequences should apply

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 17 2011

Appellant had been unsuccessful in its claims against the Respondents, and following disposal of those claims a costs hearing had been listed

The Commercial Court considers the exceptional circumstances in which the English court may grant an injunction restraining an arbitration with a foreign seat

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 17 2011

The Claimant, a US company, entered into a collaboration agreement with the First Defendant (also a US company) in relation to bidding to develop petroleum blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan