The Business Law Reports
[2024] Bus LR 557
King’s Bench Division
Mercuria Energy Trading PTE
v
Raphael Cotoner Investments Ltd
[2023] EWHC 2978 (Comm)
2023 Nov 16; 23
Sir Nigel Teare sitting as a High Court judge
Shipping— Charterparty— Breach by owner— Defence— Charterer ordering vessel to wait outside port limits pending further instructions for discharge— Master anchoring in territorial waters in breach of local and international law— Authorities detaining vessel— Charterer claiming owner breached charterparty by failing to comply with employment order— Whether charterer’s order to wait outside port limits prohibited anchoring in international waters— Whether owner’s liability excluded on ground of master’s neglect or default in navigation of ship—
International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading (Hague Rules), art IV, r 2(a)
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