Seawinds, Ltd., Plaintiff-appellant, v. Nedlloyd Lines, B.v.; Royal Nedlloyd Group, N.v.; Knsmlines, B.v.; American President Companies, Ltd.; Americanpresident Lines, Ltd. Sea-land Corporation; Sea-landservice, Inc.; Dampskibsselskabet Af 1912 A/s; A/sdampskibsselskabet Svendborg; A.p. Moller-maersk Line;hapag-lloyd Aktiengesellschaft; Intercontinental Transport(ict) B.v., Defendants-appellees, 846 F.2d 586 (9th Cir. 1988)

Thomas R. Fahrner, Michele C. Jackson, Michael R. Hudson (Furth, Fahrner, Bluemle & Mason), San Francisco, Cal., for Seawinds, Ltd.

M. Laurence Popofsky, Peter A. Wald, Andrea G. Asaro (Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe) and Charles S. Donovan (Walsh, Donovan, Lindh & Keech), San Francisco, Cal., for Nedlloyd Lines, B.V., Royal Nedlloyd Group, N.V. and KNSM Lines, B.V.

William I. Edlund, Walter R. Allan, John F. McLean (Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro), San Francisco, Cal., for American President Companies, Ltd. and American President Lines, Ltd.

Terry M. Gordon (Lasky, Haas, Cohler & Munter), San Francisco, Cal., and Robert S. Zuckerman, for Sea-Land Service, Inc.

Stanley O. Sher, Marc J. Fink, Kelly A. Knight (Dow, Lohnes & Albertson), Washington, D.C., and Gary S. Anderson (Farella, Braun & Martel), San Francisco, Cal., for A.P. Moller-Maersk Line, Hapag-Lloyd A.G., Dampskibsselskabet AF 1912 A/S and A/S Dampskibsselskabet Svenborg.

Nathan Lane III, Ralph M. Pais, James B. Nebel (Graham & James), San Francisco, Cal., for Intercontinental Transport (ICT) B.V.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Before GOODWIN, SCHROEDER and POOLE, Circuit Judges.