Financial and economic sanctions have enormously complicated the trading picture between the world and the important maritime nation of Iran, but even if political issues were solved tomorrow or had never arisen, all concerned with the shipping process would still need specialist know-how to ensure their interests were protected. James Brewer interviews Maryam Taher to look at the importance of ...

An interview with Maryam Taher (M Taher & Co, London) on recent developments in relation to the EU’s Iran sanctions regime. In the second part of the interview we ask her about her practical experience of acting for overseas shipping interests with cases in the Iranian legal system. Iranian entities such as the shipping lines, notably the IRISL, and banks, such ...

On August 31, 1986, the cargo ship Khian Sea, registered in Liberia, was loaded with more than 14,000 tons of non-toxic ash from waste incinerators in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The city had previously sent such waste to New Jersey, but that state refused to accept any more after 1984. The company handling the waste (Joseph Paolino and Sons) subcontracted shipment to Amalgamated ...

A container ship travels the equivalent of three-quarters of the way to the moon and back in one year during its regular travel across the oceans.