Hapag-Lloyd AG v. Skyros Maritime Corporation and Agios Minas Shipping Company [2024] EWHC 3139 (Comm)
In a significant new case, the UK Commercial Court assessed damages following late redelivery of two vessels under time charterparties where, pursuant to the terms of MOAs signed with third party buyers for their sale, Owners could not charter the
There is a reason why Carnival cruise ships have the highest per capita rate of sexual assaults on the high seas, as this case demonstrates.
Last week, after a two-week trial, a federal jury found Jalen Thomas Kelley, age 22, guilty of aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, and assault of a minor aboard the Carnival
A seventy-two year old man was reported missing on Monday morning from the Ruby Princess when it returned to port in San Francisco following a five day cruise to Mexico, according to numerous national and local news stations.
It remains unknown how the man went overboard or the circumstances which led to the incident. A
Keith B. Letourneau ● Aside from the destruction that flows from it, how does a hurricane along the Gulf Coast affect the maritime industry that operates hundreds of terminals and moves thousands of ocean-going ships and inland tows along its waterways? With the approach of a hurricane, the U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port
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Jeanne M. Grasso and Holli B. Packer ● On September 20, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) signed a highly anticipated final rule establishing national standards for incidental discharges from vessels into waters of the United States, albeit nearly four years after its statutory deadline. However, existing requirements included in the 2013 Vessel General Permit
Vanessa C. DiDomenico ● Heavy fuel oil (“HFO”), commonly known as bunker fuel or residual fuel oil, has been widely used by vessels for decades due to its low cost and ready availability. However, due to its high sulfur and heavy metal content, the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) has steadily enacted regulations to limit the sulfur
Anthony Rapa, Alan G. Kashdan, and Brendan S. Saslow ● Overview On July 29, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued proposed rules that would significantly expand controls under the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) regarding exports for certain end uses, certain end users, and U.S. person activities. At a
Jeanne M. Grasso and Holli B. Packer ● On August 21, 2024, the U.S. Coast Guard (“USCG”) outlined its intent to prepare the “Viability Testing Method Consideration for Acceptance Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (“PEIS”)” in the Federal Register (89 Fed. Reg. 67646), which will be used to evaluate, and potentially adopt, organism viability testing methods
Jonathan K. Waldron, Dana S. Merkel, and Holli B. Packer ● The Supreme Court of the United States’ June 28, 2024, decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024), dealt a blow to the “Chevron deference.” Loper Bright eliminated the judicial mandate that courts defer to an agency’s interpretation of ambiguous language in statutes
