Resolving maritime disputes in the People's Republic of China

to arbitration in Hong Kong with Hong Kong law to govern is an ad hoc arbitration clause. In order to be enforced, clauses should provide for institutional arbitration by designating an institution as the arbitra...

Rescue in Gibraltar

) covered by Gard I was on the bridge when we could hear over channel 16 the master of a container ship bound from Hong Kong

The Casualty, Environmental, Property and Liquid Cargo Claims group

London and Hong Kong offices.From left: Einar Christensen and Jan Kr. Jacobsen.ClaimsThe group has five senior claims

Killing the bug - Gard succeeds as fly-swatter

, Hong Kong, London, Miami and Athens. The conferences have been well attended by Members and we hope they have found them

Carriage of charcoal in containers

the Association decided to send a surveyor fromHong Kong to Belawan, Sumatra, which was the place of origin of the three containers

A computer-generated loss

Japan to Hong Kong was made with one of Gard’s Members.Subsequently, there were various changes to the booking instructions

Stowaways

. In Hong Kong immigration authorities even require that the ship should remain in port until such time as confirmation has been ... to find out about techniques used by stowaways to get on board in the past, e.g., briber...

Staff news

as Senior Claims Executive. Before joining Gard Benny worked for the Swedish Club, including one year in Hong Kong as Technical

Gard's Insurance Department, P&I (part II)

Gard News 192, November 2008/January 2009

Through transport and sub-bailment on terms - "The K.H. ENTERPRISE"

came before the Privy Council, acting in its capacity as the final Court of Appeal of Hong Kong.The "K.H. ENTERPRISE"2The ... Kong via Taiwan and another cargo from Taiwan to the Middle East/Europe via Hong ...

Are your feeder bills of lading being properly issued?

)issues a bill of lading to shippers (S) for carriage of a container  from Hong Kong to Seattle, with a clauseconferring liberty on him to sub-contract the whole or any part of the carriageof the goods. The cargo is loaded on to A’...

Enforcement of arbitral awards between China and Hong Kong

By Jonathan Rostron, of Sinclair Roche & Temperley, Hong KongThe 1958 New York Convention1 provides for the reciprocal ... of the concerns of lawyers involved in trade between Hong Kong and the Mainland has been ...

Do you know your LNGs from your LPGs?

of the cargo was saved. More recently a gas tanker suffered an engine room fire off Hong Kong and burnt vigorously for many days ... was the NATALIE O WARREN, which started operation in 1947 on a regular route from Houst...

Staff news

). Sid was previously with Thomas Miller for 20 years, 17 of which as regional director in Hong Kong.Andre Kroneberg has

Message from the Chief Executive Officer

and to talk about some of the things that we are doing to help. In April we held a series of seminars in Singapore, Hong Kong