Hapag-Lloyd AG (respondent) v Skyros Maritime Corporation (appellant)

Описание: Tuesday 28 – Wednesday 29 October 2025

(1) Hapag-Lloyd AG (respondent) v Skyros Maritime Corporation (appellant)
(2) Agios Minas Shipping Company (appellant) v Hapag-Lloyd AG (respondent)

Before Lord Justice Coulson
Lord Justice Males
Lady Justice Andrews

By two Appellant’s Noticse filed on 24 January 2025, the Appellant Owners Appeal the Order, dated 13 December 2024 of Bright J sitting in the Commercial Court allowing the Respondent Charterer’s Appeal under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 in relation to an arbitration award.

The matter came before the Judge as an appeal under section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 in relation to two arbitration awards.

The disputes dealt with two materially identical timecharter charterparties. The two vessels “MV Skyros” and “MV Agios Minas” were owned by the Defendants below. In these appeals, the Appellants are the Owner of MV Skyros and of MV Agios Minas (collectively “Owners”). The Claimant in the court below (appealing against the Arbitration Award) is the Charterer of both vessels. The Charterer is the Respondent in both appeals before this court.

The issue concerns damages for late delivery of the vessels in circumstances where it is common ground that, even if the Vessels had been redelivered on time, Owners would not have rechartered them and earned further hire.