Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1269

The ship's agent and a representative of the maritime carrier and actions arising from maritime carriage operations. Joining him as a party to those actions is sufficient, without the need to join the carrier. The reason therefor. - The deposit or guarantee that the ship's agent deposits with a Kuwaiti bank. The reason for it. Security for the enforcement of judicial judgments rendered for interested parties against the foreign carrier. - 223 - Commercial - Joining the ship's agent, without the carrier, in actions arising from the maritime carriage contract. Which affect the goods carried. An exception. There is no occasion to apply it to recourse actions by the ship's agent against the maritime carrier.