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UK Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 comes into force

21/09/2023

The Electronic Trade Documents Act ("the Act") comes into force today in the United Kingdom, giving legal recognition in English law to electronic trade documents, including electronic bills of lading.

Circular 11/23: Updated Suite of IG-Recommended Letters of Indemnity Wordings

12/09/2023

The International Group (“IG”) Standard Form Letters of Indemnity (given in return for delivery of cargo without production of an original bill of lading and/or delivery of cargo at a port or place other than stated in the bill of lading) were last reviewed in 2010.

Circular 06/23: Electronic Paperless Trading - Update to Secro Terms and Conditions

17/05/2023

This circular confirms approval by the International Group of an updated version of the Secro Customer and User Agreement dated 16th March 2023 as well as use of the Secro Customer e-billls of lading in conjunction with the said User Agreement

Circular 01/23: Electronic (Paperless) Trading

26/01/2023

EssDOCS, Bolero International Ltd, E-Title Authority Pte Ltd, Global Share S.A

Circular 16/22: Electronic (Paperless) Trading

21/11/2022

This circular informs Members of the approval by the International Group of P&I Clubs (the Group) of the Secro system

BIMCO has published an Electronic Bill of Lading Standard for Bulk Shipping

12/10/2022

BIMCO has developed and published an eBL Standard for the bulk shipping sector to establish common industry standards for e-BLs

Circular 10/22: Electronic (Paperless) Trading - Update to TradeLens Terms and Conditions

07/10/2022

This circular informs Members of the amendments to the TradeLens Rulebook and Service Description.

The "Tai Prize" - Permission to appeal refused by the Supreme Court

21/07/2022

The Supreme Court has refused the disponent owners permission to appeal, and affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal

Malaysia: One country, two limitation of liability regimes

18/07/2022

The Club's guest authors, Jeremy M Joseph and Matthew Van Huizen of JOSEPH & PARTNERS, discuss the different limitation of liability regimes applicable to Peninsular Malaysia and to East Malaysia. 

Circular 06/22: Electronic Paperless Trading Update

09/06/2022

This circular informs Members of the approval by the International Group of P&I Clubs (the Group) of the IQAX eBL system.

Circular 05/22: Paperless Trading Electronic Trading Systems Update to E-TITLE – cancellation of R3 ownership

01/06/2022

The E-TITLE electronic trading system is now owned by E-Title Authority Pte Ltd, following the dissolution of the agreement between R3 and E-TITLE.

Herculito Maritime Limited & others v Gunvor International BV & others (The "Polar") - Court of Appeal [2021] EWCA Civ 1828

28/04/2022

Court of Appeal: cargo owners and shippers are liable to contribute to general average even if insured, unless bill of lading explicitly states otherwise.

QCR Autumn 2021: Noble Chartering Inc V Priminds Shipping (HK) Co Ltd (The "Tai Prize") [2021] EWCA Civ 87 - Court of Appeal

30/09/2021

Court of Appeal clarifies warranty obligations in bill of lading disputes, the master's obligation to sign a bill of lading must be performed upon his own judgement

UK Club Circular: 07/21 - PAPERLESS TRADING ELECTRONIC TRADING SYSTEMS UPDATE TO E-TITLE

24/09/2021

There has been a change in ownership of the E-TITLE electronic trading system and its underlying legal framework to software technology firm, R3; There has been a change in trading name of the E-TITLE electronic trading system to Corda eBL; Members are invited to take note of how the Corda eBL software will operate.

UK Club Circular 4/21: Paperless Trading Electronic Trading Systems Update to Essdocs

16/06/2021

The International Group has approved an updated version of essDOCS's electronic trading system.

UK Club Circular 02/21: ELECTRONIC PAPERLESS TRADING

29/03/2021

This circular informs Members of the approval by the International Group of P&I Clubs (the Group) of the TradeLens eBL system.

Singapore Parliament Passes Law to Recognise Electronic Bills of Lading

23/02/2021

​On 1 February 2021, the Singapore parliament passed the Electronic Transactions (Amendment) Bill2 which adopts the UNICTRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records ("Model Law"), with certain modifications.

IG Letters of Indemnity

10/09/2020

Members are often asked to accept letters of indemnity (LOIs) from their shippers or charterers in return for the delivery of cargo without presentation of original bills of lading, the delivery of cargo at a port other than that named in the bill of lading (or both) and in various other circumstances

Electronic Bills of Lading - An Update: Part II

01/04/2020

In Part I  of this article, the authors introduced the three new eBL providers whose blockchain based systems were recently approved by the International Group (IG), and provided an overview on how their systems work

Electronic Bills of Lading - An Update Part I

26/03/2020

Three years ago, the UK P&I Club issued a Legal Briefing[1] on Electronic Bills of Lading (eBLs) in which we tried to de-mystify the concept of the eBL, by providing an insight into how the systems of the three eBL providers approved by the International Group of P&I Clubs (the "IG") at the time, namely Bolero, essDOCS and e-Title™, work. We explained the legal principles relied upon by these providers to enable their eBLs to replicate the essential functions of a paper BL. We also tried to put cyber risks in context by explaining that these risks are risks associated with the general use of computers in our businesses, and are not risks specific to the use of eBLs.  

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