Chans Advice 239 – Small Claims Tribunal
The Hong Kong High Court issued a Decision on 22 January 2021 dealing with an appeal against a Small Claims Tribunal’s award concerning a dispute over a container terminal’s storage…
Chans Advice 238 – Air shipment without authority?
The Hong Kong District Court issued a Decision on 8 May 2020 upholding a summary judgment ordering one forwarder to pay outstanding airfreight charges of HK$440,000 to another forwarder.
Chans Advice 237 – Cargo misdelivery and arbitration clause
The Hong Kong High Court issued a Decision on 4 March 2020 dismissing a shipowner's application for a stay of proceedings in favour of arbitration in a case of cargo…
Chans Advice 236 – Sale of ship by court (II)
In the last issue of Chans advice, we reported the case that the Hong Kong Court of Appeal rejected the mortgagee’s appeal against the High Court’s order of granting a…
Chans Advice 235 – Sale of ship by court
The Court of Appeal of Hong Kong issued a judgment on 28 March 2019 dealing with a matter concerning the sale pendente lite of an oil tanker Brightoil Glory.
Chans Advice 234 – Sanchi c/w CF Crystal (VI)
In Chans advice/215, we reported the High Court of Hong Kong refused Changhong Group’s application to stay the Hong Kong action. The Court of Appeal also subsequently dismissed Changhong Group’s…
Chans Advice 233 – Forwarder’s STC
Are Standard Trading Conditions (“STC”) equivalent to the House Bill of Lading (“HB/L”) terms or the House Air Waybill (“HAWB”) terms? We have been frequently asked this question by our…
Chans Advice 232 – Uncollected cargoes
We recently have received a lot of uncollected cargo claim cases from our forwarder clients, which have kept our 6 claim handlers very busy. We would like to take this…
Chans Advice 231 – Cargo claim handling for forwarders
We have received a lot of cargo claims from our forwarder clients in the recent months. In this issue, we would like to discuss in general how the forwarders should…
Chans Advice 230 – What’s FCR
We have received some enquiries from our forwarder clients about the FCR e.g. what is FCR? How many types of FCR are there? What are the uses of FCR? We…