Marine Insurance Legal
Covering the latest law firm activity in the marine insurance sector.
- Criminal charges have been filed against Dali chief engineer June 18, 2026It was revealed in a court filing in Maryland on June 15th that criminal charges have been brought against Karthikeyan Deenadayalan, the chief engineer of containership Dali (IMO 9697428 ....
- Charges filed in Finland against Fitburg captain and bo’sun June 18, 2026Finnish prosecutors have filed charges against the captain and bosun of cargo ship Fitburg (IMO 9250397) which was reported to have damaged two subsea telecom cables last December 31st ....
- Captain of sanctioned tanker is charged in UK June 17, 2026Indian national Ajay Pant, 38, the captain of tanker Smyrtos (IMO 9389100) detained by British authorities in the English Channel during a high-profile operation targeting ....
- Nigerian court fines Indian crew and bulk carrier $6m in drug smuggling case June 16, 2026The Nigerian Federal High Court has accepted a plea deal struck with 11 Indian nationals who were the crew of a bulker that in January this year was found to be .....
- Shadow fleet tanker captain pleads guilty after Atlantic chase during Venezuelan sanctions June 15, 2026The former master of tanker Bella 1 (IMO 9230880) which was in the headlines at the end of last year after it declined to be boarded by the US Coast Guard in the Caribbean ....
- Caught in the middle: When carriers face rival claims for delivery and how English law responds June 10, 2026Rory Butler, Partner, and Miranda Stock, Associate at international legal firm HFW have written on the case of Kama Metal Trading LLC v Maersk & Others [2026] EWHC 940 (Comm) ....
- Swedish court rules seized cargo ship Caffa can be handed over to Ukraine June 8, 2026On June 4th a Swedish court complied with the prosecutors’ request that cargo ship Caffa (IMO 9143611) be seized in response to a request from Ukraine, which claims that the ....
- Invalid notice of readiness and laytime: Commercial Court revisits The Happy Day June 5, 2026Alex Andreou, senior associate at HFW, has written on a recent Commercial Court decision relating to the impact on the running of laytime of an invalid notice of readiness ....
- Dali trial delayed, again June 3, 2026US federal district court judge James Bredar has, with some reluctance and frustration, agreed to a further delay to the opening arguments in the civil trial related to the March 2024 ....
- KiwiRail fined over June 2024 incident that was said to have endangered passengers June 3, 2026New Zealand has ordered inter-island RoRo ferry operator KiwiRail to pay a fine of NZ$400,000 (US$235,000) after it was found to have endangered the safety of passengers ....