Cargo ship

PIRAEUS BANK AE, the party of (C1) also the ship owner of this case. (D1) TALBOT UNDERWRITING LTD,(D2) HISCOX SYNDICATES LTD, (D3) QBE CORPORATE LTD, (D4) CHAUCER CORPORATE CAPITAL (NO.2) LTD, (D5) MARKEL CAPITAL LTD, (D6) CATLIN SYNDICATE LTD, (D7) APRILGRANGE LTD, (D8) BRIT UW LTD, (D9) NOVAE CORPORATE UNDERWRITING LTD, (D10) GAI INDEMNITY LTD. All of these companies are insurers and also the defendants of this case. The background fact happens due to the cargo of 141,000 metric tons of fuel…

contract of affreightment. The ship-owner agrees to carry a series of cargo parcels for a fixed price per ton. This enables the ship-owner to prepare in advance for the best use of his ships. c) The time charter. It is a charter, where the ownership and the management of the vessel remain to the ship-owner. This charter can be either a trip charter, in order to complete a single voyage, or a period charter, in order to complete a period of months or years voyage. The ship-owner pays all the…

Pondicherry, and prepares a move to Canada, he nearly loses his morality fighting for survival after their cargo ship sank in the Pacific Ocean. Sailing on a lifeboat with 4 other animals for over 200 days Pi reaches Mexico where he was hospitalized for several weeks. The reporters thought Pi lied about sailing with tiger, a hyena, a monkey, and zebra all representing human-counterparts of Pi, the cargo ship cook, Pi’s mother, and a sailor respectively.…

World utilized slave labor…” Many Africans were taken from their homes and forced to do manual labor. Olaudah Equiano was one of these people. He was kidnapped at age eleven by slave traders then transported to Barbados on a tremendously crowded ship. After his time there, he was sold to a Virginian plantation owner. A British captain purchased him changed his name to Gustavus Vassa and allowed him to join the Royal Navy and fight in the Seven Years War. He eventually bought his freedom and…

research because it analyzes the mysterious disappearance of the USS Cyclops, a WWI cargo ship, which was used to transport combat materials from the Caribbean back to Baltimore. It provides many alternate theories to what happened to it, including the best possible theory, based on the research that has been discovered and examined. It was stated that overall, the most accurate theory is that the ship was overloaded with cargo, and during a storm it was suddenly broken into pieces even before…

The discovery of the Uluburun shipwreck was a key moment for the practice of Underwater Archaeology. Underwater Archaeology has created a new and unique method of discovering historical artifacts from thousands of years ago. The scientific study of underwater archaeology is a recent revolutionary tool that can surge past what archaeology on land can do. The shipwreck of the Uluburun exemplifies the importance of this practice. The Uluburun shipwreck reveals the importance of trade during the…

Purpose This paper will discuss the Great Lakes regions issue with invasive species introduced via ships ballast water, and the response that has followed since then. The impact of shipping and its economic benefit to the region will also be reviewed. The Great Lakes The great lakes system consists of a group of linked freshwater lakes spanning across the traditionally defined “heart land” region of North America. The system consists primarily of 5 distinct bodies of water; Lake Superior,…

held responsible for handling shipments and cargo, and the general interests of its customers, at ports and harbours worldwide, on behalf of ship owners, managers, and charterers. Specifically, there are two types of port agents. Liner Agent and Tramp Agent. A roles and responsibilities of a Tramp Agent differs from those of a Liner Agent. A Tramp Agent’s responsibilities include attending to Owner’s or Charterer’s matters; arranging for stevedores; cargo work equipment; preparing port…

Marcel Mauss (2002) in his seminal work The Gift (2002) has said that even though gift-giving is technically a voluntary process and it is allegedly free of any egotism in reality gift giving and receiving is a social obligation and is inundated with self-interest. Mauss adds that the gestures associated with gift-giving, the mask of generosity and disinterestedness, are all mere fictions to appease our sense of propriety. In other words, when people give gifts they do so with the motive of…

world a slave ship captain would have to take a huge risk in transporting them across the Atlantic Ocean. There were a lot of thing that could go wrong on the trip from Africa to the new world. There many different types of disease that the captain and crew were exposed to, also there was a chance that they could run into bad weather crossing the ocean, and there was a chance that there cargo could die. Most of the slaves came from the coast of Africa. Most of the Captains of the slave ships…