Does Admiralty jurisdiction extend to a vessel that has been beached? In The Kelsie [2024], the charterers were looking to arrest the...

The Win Win [2024] joins The Afra Oak [2023] as another case involving ship arrest by Indonesian navy for illegal anchoring. In this...

A ship – we all know it when we see one, but we can’t really define it. That is perhaps the only right answer to the deceptively simple...

Over the past years many vessels have been detained by Indonesian or Malaysian navies for anchoring in their waters without permission....

If a bank exercises its ship mortgage maritime lien and arrests a vessel for owner’s default, then a time charterer as provider of...

Can a remote operated vehicle be arrested, or in other words can in rem jurisdiction be invoked against a ROV? Yes, if it is deemed to be...

To recover the sums due for bunkers supplied on request of time charterers, suppliers may try to claim against the vessel by having her...

If an in rem writ is issued against the wrong doing ship involved in a collision after she undergoes a change in ownership, then who...

Various jurisdictions allow arrest of a sister ship to enforce a maritime claim. But proving that the vessel is a sister ship can prove...

It is common to have a string of contracts in the bunker supply chain, which creates a risk of ship being arrested if the payment for...

When Hanjin Shipping collapsed in 2016, the creditors, foreseeing sale of Hanjin fleet, scrambled to have writs of ship arrest issued in...

Judicial sale of a vessel usually results in her being sold ‘free and unencumbered’. It would come as quite a shock to the buyer if it...

Amalgam of multiple issues such as piracy, seafarer employment contracts, CBAs, arrest of ship and sister ship – is what makes The...

Following the financial collapse of OW Bunkers, the physical suppliers of ship bunkers have been threatening to or arresting vessels to...