Force Majeure

The following sections are included:

• Case — The loose pontoons

  • Hundreds of reasons for force majeure

• What is force majeure in international contracting?

• Some definitions from standard contracts

  • FIDIC blue book on dredging and land reclamation

  • LOGIC standard contracts

  • LOGIC Mobile Drilling Rig standard — the former CRINE contract

  • CMM contract for the Oil and Gas Industry 1992

  • Norwegian fabrication contract

  • Dutch UAV 1989/2012

• Force majeure in the Netherlands’ law

  • Comparing the two cases on hoisting cranes

• Force majeure in English common law

  • Frustration

• Consequences of force majeure

• The Hurricane Protocol

• Conclusions