2016 ARTICLES

Maintenance - Test Whether the Claim is Unreasonable

Unpaid Freight - A Debt or Claim in Damages?

English High Court considers apportionment of claims under the Inter Club Agreement

London Arbitration 26/16 - Shortloading Claims

The Longchamp - GA & Ransom

Crew Health Cover

Clarification of a Carriers Burden of Proof when relying on a Hague Rules Defence

3 Chinese Ports implement low sulphur fuel regime

Issues with Quantities of Bunkers on Redelivery

Maritime Labour Convention 2006

Gross vs. Simple Negligence

Maintenance and Adjustment of Magnetic Compasses

The 'Atlantik Confidence' - No Weakening of the Test to Deny Limitation

Calcium hypochlorite: it’s back and hiding in plain sight

Carriage of Calcium Hypochlorite Guidelines

Limited Recognition of Foreign Maritime liens in Australia

Once on Demurrage, Always on Demurrage?

USCG Issue Steering Gears Safety Alert

Cuba - US Relaxation Measures

Hire – Not a Condition of the Contract

Maritime Labour Convention 2006 - Financial Security Requirements

Steamship Mutual Receives Standard & Poor’s Rating Upgrade

Steamship Mutual Partners with Sailors’ Society to Improve Seafarers’ Health and Fitness

Compliance with Orders and Continuing Performance Warranty

MSA Guidelines regarding ECAs

The Judgement of the Spanish Supreme Court on the Prestige oil spill - Spain cannot have it both ways

"The Prestige" Court of Appeal Decision

The Insurance Act 2015

Anti-suit Injunctions: Limits of the Court's Generosity Tested

The Global Santosh - Acts of Delegates & Off-HIre

Sanctions Update May 2016

Supreme Court Ruling on the "RES COGITANS" - OW Bunkers

Bridge Resource Management

Charterparty Guarantees - A Timely Reminder

Battle of Jutland Centenary: Could Cunard's "Campania" have changed history?

Supreme Court shifts tests away from "genuine pre-estimate of loss" but declines to abolish rule against penalties

Arrest Haven: The Netherlands

Cogenbill 'Paramount Clause' - Hague or Hague/Visby Rules?

Controlling Medical Care Costs in the USA

Decommissioning an Oil Rig? Will your indemnity contract also abandon you?

POEA upheld in Louisiana

The Ocean Virgo - High Court considers good weather periods

Arbitration and Protecting Time for Counterclaims

When is a Trip not a Trip?

Orders to Proceed to Politically unstable ports

Maritime Liens in the United States

A More Literal Approach to Construction

Latest developments regarding Chinese Emission Control regulations

A brief commercial look at tanker charters in the wake of "The Kriti Filoxenia"

OPA 90 - Limits of Liability Increased

"Off-Hire: A Study" by John Weale

'Fit for Life' DVD shortlisted in the 2016 Seatrade Awards

Latest development on Emission Control Areas in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Update: Glory Wealth Shipping PTE Ltd v Flame SA

Repudiatory Breach, Damages and the Ability to Perform - The Glory Wealth (2013)

Implying Terms into a Commercial Contract - Does the Restrictive and Traditional Test Still Apply?

Paris and Tokyo MOU - Concentrated Inspection Campaign on Enclosed Space Entry Drills

Ballast Water - Vessel Circular 012-16: Regulatory Update

HNS Convention - Why is it needed?

SAMSA Application to Stop or Anchor a Ship for Repairs

Vibrio Cholera Virus - Special Measures for before entering Iranian Ports

AMSA Under Keel Clearance Management (UKCM) System - Torres Strait

The "New Flamenco" - Court of Appeal Decision

P.R.C. Emission Control Regulation - Pearl and Yangtze River Deltas and Bohai-rim Waters