Tsakiroglou & Co. Limited v. Noblee Thorl Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung

Tsakiroglou (defendant) failed to ship contracted Sudanese groundnuts to Noblee (plaintiff) after the Suez Canal, the customary shipping route, was blocked by military conflict, even though shipment via the longer Cape of Good Hope route remained possible; the contract itself was silent on which route would be used, and there was no evidence the buyer cared about the specific route or that a delivery-date delay would spoil the goods.