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Articles and case comments
- Breach of the Safe Port Warranty: Charterers’ Liability and the Handling of Insurance ClaimsThis article examines breach of the safe port warranty as one of the principal risks covered by charterers’ liability insurance. It analyses the safe port criteria developed under English case law, and their impact on a charterer’s liability in damages. Attention is paid to the handling of insurance claims arising from breach of the safe port warranty, and to the steps to be taken by charterers and their insurers upon receipt of a claim from the shipowner.
- “Dead Freight”The article analyses the legal nature of “dead freight” as losses caused by the failure default to execute the obligation of the charterer to provide the volume of cargo agreed under the contract of carriage of goods by sea. The author gives examples of approaches to the qualification of “dead freight” in Russian and foreign judicial practice, emphasizes the practical relevance of the correct legal qualification of “dead freight”, and also highlights the features of the “dead freight” institute.
- Apparent or not Apparent: Order and Condition of the Goods’Noble Chartering Inc v Priminds Shipping Hong Kong Co Ltd (“Tai Prize”) [2021] EWCA Civ 87 (28 January 2021)