New IMO Regulation and amendment to SOLAS: corrosion protection of crude oil...
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...
View ArticleRevised MARPOL Annex V: Just Who Should Take Out The Trash?
Following a review by the Correspondence Group established by the Marine Environment Protection Committee in 2006, various amendments to MARPOL Annex V Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by...
View ArticleRevised MARPOL Annex V: An Update
In January changes to the way in which Cargo residues were classified came into effect by way of changes to MARPOL Annex V (see our client alert of 8 March 2013; Revised MARPOL Annex V: Just Who Should...
View ArticleCourt rules that English law does not allow constitution of a Limitation Fund...
In Cosmotrade SA v Kairos Shipping Ltd and others [2013] EWHC 1904 (Comm), the Commercial Court considered the question of whether English law allows a Limitation Fund to be constituted by way of a...
View ArticleCourt of Appeal reverses High Court decision on constitution of Limitation...
In Cosmotrade SA v Kairos Shipping Ltd (“The Atlantik Confidence”) [2014] EWCA Civ 217, the Court of Appeal reversed the High Court’s first instance decision that English law does not allow...
View Article1 January 2015: MARPOL and SOLAS amendments in force
Various amendments to MARPOL and SOLAS came into force on 1 January 2015. MARPOL Annex VI: The limit for fuel sulphur oil levels has fallen to 0.10% m/m (from 1.00%) in Emission Control Areas...
View ArticleCongenbill ‘Paramount Clause’– Hague or Hague / Visby Rules?
In Yemgas FZCO & Ors v Superior Pescadores SA [2016] EWCA Civ 101, the Court of Appeal considered whether the standard ‘Paramount Clause’ wording in the Congenbill incorporates the Hague Rules 1924...
View ArticleSingapore to implement 1996 Protocol to the Convention on Limitation of...
Singapore will soon be implementing the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims of 1976 (as amended in 2012 and effective from 2015), following the passing of the...
View ArticleNew United Nations treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)
A historic agreement was reached at the United Nations (“UN”) in New York on Saturday, March 4th, 2023 on the text of a new treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity beyond...
View ArticleHow the new “BBNJ” or “high seas” treaty may soon result in new obligations...
The President of the United Nations (“UN”) intergovernmental conference (“IGC”) on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (“BBNJ”), Rena Lee, proposed on March 27, 2023 that the IGC reconvene on...
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