Robert Thomas QC and Benjamin Coffer appeared for the successful claimants in The Maersk Tangier, the first English case to consider package limitation for containerised cargoes under the Hague-Visby Rules. The Judge declined to follow El Greco v. Mediterranean Shipping [2004] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 537, in which the Federal Court of Australia held that Article IV Rule 5(c) of the Hague-Visby Rules requires cargo to be enumerated in the bill of lading “as packed”. The judgment also holds that the Hague-Visby Rules can be compulsorily applicable, even where waybills rather than bills of lading are issued.