Read the full judgment text of HCAJ 000025/1996 on BabelCite. This HCAJ judgment.
1. Late at night on the 16th day of January 1996, there was a collision in the waters of Bangkok's Chao Phraya River between the Plaintiffs' Russian ship "Kapitan Shvetsov" ("Russian Ship") and the Defendants' Singaporean ship "Nanta Bhum" ("Singaporean Ship"). The Plaintiffs' Russian Ship was outward bound for Indonesia and the Defendants' Singaporean Ship was inward bound from Singapore on her weekly feeder service between Singapore and Bangkok. Local pilots were on board both vessels. Substan