From Ship to Scrap: When does Admiralty Jurisdiction end?
Does Admiralty jurisdiction extend to a vessel that has been beached? In The Kelsie [2024], the charterers were looking to arrest the...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Feb 4
- 2 min
Ship scrapping & EWSR
A few months ago, the Rotterdam District Court fined a Director of a shipping company for breaching the European Waste Shipment...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
Can cash buyers of vessels to be scrapped deploy them for trade?
What if a vessel is sold for scrapping with a ‘for demolition only’ clause in the agreement, but buyers end up trading the vessel. Is...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
Scrapping a ship in an unapproved yard & owners' liability for death of workers
Scrapping the ship in an unapproved or uncertified yard? English court’s decision in The Ekta [2020] may just have added another element...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 23, 2018
- 1 min
Scrapping ships in non-EU approved yards can have consequences for mariners too!
Last week, a Dutch court fined a shipowner as they had beached a vessel in India in 2013 in violation of EU waste shipment regulations...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Sep 2, 2018
- 1 min
Ship scrapping - a few headlines
Ship breaking activity has been in the news a lot recently, chiefly for all the wrong reasons. Owners usually sell end-of-life ships...
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