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Smooth sailing or rough seas? The Arbitration Act 2025 and its maritime implications
Posted: 14/05/2025
Nearly three decades after the enactment of the Arbitration Act 1996, the United Kingdom has introduced a carefully considered update with the Arbitration Act 2025 to better align with the evolving landscape of dispute resolution. Although the act received royal assent on 24 February 2025, it has yet to come into force......>>
MSC Flaminia in the Supreme Court - charterers have limitation rights under the 1976 convention, even against the shipowner
Posted: 12/05/2025
The recent Supreme Court judgment in MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA v Conti 11 Container Schiffahrts-GmbH & Co KG MS [2025] UKSC 14 provides crucial clarification on the right to limit liability under the 1976 Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims. On 14 July 2012, an explosion occurred on board......>>
Josefina Thordén – WWII tanker seized as prize by salvors
Posted: 15/04/2025
This year marks the bicentennial of the founding of heritage maritime law firm Thomas Cooper in 1825. To celebrate this occasion, lawyers from Penningtons Manches Cooper are, for each month of 2025, chronicling a different standout case conducted by Thomas Cooper across its two centuries of English legal practice. The fourth instalment in this......>>
The Alion – suit deemed invalid 'unless pigs fly, or England win the World Cup'
Posted: 28/03/2025
A recent decision of the Commercial Court in Tanga Pharmaceuticals Plastics Limited and others v Emirates Shipping Line FZE, The Alion [2025] EWHC 368 (Comm)) has provided useful guidance on the approach to be taken where the Hague Rules are contractually incorporated into a bill of lading but conflict with another clause of the contract......>>
American Merchant – the ‘man versus machine’ case
Posted: 14/03/2025
This year marks the bicentennial of the founding of heritage maritime law firm Thomas Cooper in 1825. The third instalment in this series focuses on the year of Thomas Cooper’s first centennial and the collision case of the American Merchant [1925] 23 LI L Rep 1; the first time the courts considered nautical evidence produced by a machine......>>
Sanctions against Russia: UK/EU update
Posted: 05/03/2025
On 24 February 2025, the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both the EU and the UK adopted further sanctions on Russia. The EU Council adopted a 16th package of sanctions. The EU package targets Russia’s trade, energy, transport and infrastructure sectors, whilst the UK has broadened its existing measures to incorporate......>>
Ice damage – navigating the charterparty terms
Posted: 05/03/2025
Damage to a ship’s propulsion and steering systems from ice remains fairly common. Ship owners will often look to claim for the damage from their charterers, either as a result of a breach of an ice clause in the charterparty, or as an unsafe port claim. Owners may also allege breach of an implied or express indemnity for losses resulting......>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper advises Marine Service Noord on contract for groundbreaking ammonia marine fuel supply system
Posted: 21/02/2025
Penningtons Manches Cooper’s shipping group has acted for Marine Service Noord (MSN), a maritime systems engineering company, on its contract with Fortescue, an Australian mining and green energy company operating globally, for the design, build, and delivery of the world’s first class-approved ammonia fuel and bunker system......>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper appoints shipping disputes partner in Singapore
Posted: 14/02/2025
Penningtons Manches Cooper is delighted to announce that Max Lim has joined as a partner in its Singapore office. Max is a shipping and commodities specialist whose client base spans shipowners and operators, insurers, banks, as well as commodity traders, energy companies and offshore players. He has significant experience in disputes......>>
FA Tamplin – a WWI time charter ‘test case’ on frustration
Posted: 13/02/2025
This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of heritage maritime law firm Thomas Cooper in 1825. To celebrate this occasion, lawyers from Penningtons Manches Cooper will, for each month of 2025, be chronicling a different seminal case conducted by Thomas Cooper across its two centuries of English legal practice......>>

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