Read the full judgment text of HCA 005498/1985 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 November 1986.
1. On the 27th December 1983, the plaintiff, a firm of ship builders in Hong Kong entered into a contract with the China National Technical Import Corporation to build a dredger with a gross tonnage of 420 tons at a cost calculated in Japanese Yen which is equivalent to about HK$10,000,000. After construction was completed, the plaintiff agreed to deliver the vessel to the Qin Huang Dao Port Management Authority (the Port Management Authority) in China under a ship delivery agreement that was da