Hellenic Lines, Limited, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant v. The Embassy of Pakistan, Defendant-Appellant-Appellee

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• concluding that “the ‘no demurrage’ clause contained in the freight contracts ... preclude^] holding [defendant] liable for detention damages”
• “Parties to a maritime contract are free to contract away liability for delay.”
• “The provision ‘loss or damage’ in [COGSA] refers to physical loss or damage to the goods. . . . [d]etention is wholly unconnected with physical loss or damage to goods and is a matter which COGSA left to be dealt with by contract between the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).