Excessive speed found to be causative of collision and severity of damage in Court of Appeal decision, reported by the Club in QCR Summer 2017 .
SWIFT MT700: Chinese manufacturer Yuchai Dongte seeks payment from non-bank defendant under letter of credit issued on 10 March 2014.
Measure of Damages and Sub-sale: Euro-Asian Oil SA and Abilo dispute fourth transaction involving sale of 20,000 mt ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD)
How Important Is Passage Planning?
12/03/2019
On 8 March, the English Admiralty Court in a judgment (ALIZE 1954 & CMA CGM SA v ALLIANZ ELEMENTAR VERSICHERUNGS AG AND OTHERS [2019] EWHC 481 (Admlty)) highlighted the utmost importance of careful passage planning by navigational officers on board vessels.
Global warming has increased the potential for commercial shipping as the Arctic ice progressively melts. Canada maintains that the Passage is part of its internal waters and that no right of innocent passage exists within it, whereas the United States of America believes the Passage is an international strait where the right of transit passage exists.
Traffic restrictions at Venezuelan ports
27/02/2019
The UK Club have received the attached circular from correspondents GLOBALPANDI, regarding traffic restrictions in Venezuelan ports.
The UK Club have received the attached circular from local correspondents Huatai, regarding vessels making contact with fishing nets in Ningde waters in China.
German Insurance Premium Tax (IPT)
18/02/2019
Working through the International Group, and with specialist legal support, IG clubs continue to monitor the developing situation in Germany as regards Insurance Premium Tax on clubs' business.
On 14 January 2019, the Singapore Parliament passed the Merchant Shipping (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. The main objectives of the Bill are to amend the Merchant Shipping Act to implement i) the 1996 Protocol to the 1976 LLMC; and ii) the International Convention on Salvage, 1989.
The UK P&I Club has received the following client alert from Freehill Hogan and Mahar, regarding changes to the U.S
Sunda Straits, Indonesia - Update
21/01/2019
The UK Club has received the following update from local correspondents, SPICA Services (Indonesia), regarding the recent tsunami in Indonesia.
As Members may be aware from previous bulletins on the subject, new regulations related to Fuel Oil sulphur content will come into force from 01 Jan 2020. To prepare the maritime industry, various port states have released guidance on how changes will be implemented.
Members' attention is drawn to the attached update on the 2019 tariffs for pollution fines in Turkish waters
2019 Reinsurance Rates Announced
18/12/2018
The arrangements for the renewal of the International Group General Excess of Loss (GXL) reinsurance contract for 2019/20 have now been confirmed.
Vinmar Overseas (Singapore) Pte Ltd v PTT International Trading Pte Ltd [2018] SGCA 65
London Arbitration 18/18 (2018) 1010 LMLN 2: Whether ICA 2011 had been incorporated in full into charterparty so as to require charterers to provide counter-security
China ECAs - Members are reminded that from 1 January, 2019, all seagoing ships sailing in Chinese territorial waters will need to use fuel with a sulphur content of no higher than 0.5% m/m
QCR Autumn 2018: Carriage of Goods by Sea
13/12/2018
Fehn Schiffahrts Gmbh & Co Kg v Romani spa (The "Fehn Heaven") - [2018] EWHC 1606 (Comm)