Sino East Transportation Ltd v Grand Amazon Shipping Ltd [2025] EWHC 1990 (Comm) (30 July 2025)

Having been held liable by a PRC Court for damage to a cargo (suffering from inherent vice) the Respondent Owners sought an indemnity from the Claimant Time Charterers both under the ICA and the implied indemnity arising out of NYPE Clause 8. The Tribunal allowed the latter. Dismissing Charterers’ appeal, the Court confirmed that the implied indemnity was engaged, and that there was no special rule for inherent vice, which was not an ordinary trading risk for which Owners were remunerated by hire.

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