Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Cap International Trading Corp.

NESBITT, Judge.

The appellant, an ocean carrier, appeals a judgment in favor of the appellee shipper awarding it compensatory and consequential damages on a claim of an alleged breach of guaranteed arrival date , of the goods at the destination. We reverse.

The shipper was interested in consummating a sale of pickled pig tails to a buyer in Kingston, Jamaica. The economic fea*35sibility of the transaction was based upon the arrival of the pig tails in Jamaica prior to an increase in tariff. When the trucker loaded and weighed the containers for overland transportation from Toronto to Port…