Read the full judgment text of CACV 000070/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 23 December 1994.
1. Between the 12th and 14th of August 1992 cargo over which the plaintiffs herein claim rights as owners, consignees or endorsees was loaded in Keelung onto the Panamanian registered vessel United Sing ("the vessel") which then departed on the 15th for Hong Kong. However on the 16th the vessel was stranded on rocks near Nan Pang Island of the coast of Shantou, in the Peoples Republic of China (the PRC). The no. 2 hold and the engine-room were flooded and, as there was a typhoon in the area and