Maritime law in practice - perspectives on shipping, offshore wind projects, international trade and marine insurance
When a ship’s engine fails, the shipyard is not necessarily the only party to consider. Korean law allows claims under the Product Liability Act or in tort, even without a direct contract. A tanker engine dispute illustrates how liability can turn on who held information about a defect, who controlled it, and who failed to […]
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A wind turbine blade nearly 100 metres long leaves port lying along the deck. Where it sits is not a stowage decision but a legal one: it moves the carrier’s liability, the cargo owner’s consent, the wording of the bill of lading and the reach of the insurance. The real risk of blade carriage may […]
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A foreign ship arrived at Okgye Port with 1.7 tonnes of cocaine on board, taken on in the Pacific off Peru; a Korean court sentenced the principal offender to 25 years. Yet in an earlier collision in Korea’s exclusive economic zone that killed Korean fishermen, the Korean courts held that they had no criminal jurisdiction […]
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Where a vessel collides with another vessel or strikes a quay, the repair account is seldom the principal dispute. The argument is about the period during which the vessel, the quay or the crane stood idle — how long that period may reasonably be, what was not earned during it, and which costs went on […]
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