by michael | Aug 3, 2011 | Maritime
Port-charter – Centrocon strike clause 30 – this exception held to cover ordinary congestion The facts The vessel was chartered on the Centrocon form to carry heavy grain or sorghums in bulk at one or two safe loading ports in the river Parana not higher...
by michael | Aug 3, 2011 | Maritime
NYPE Charter – anti – technicality clause – interpretation of proviso “intention to fail” to pay. The facts The term of the charter was for 48 months plus/minus two months at charterers’ option. Hire was to be paid semi-monthly in advance. The anti-technicality clause...
by michael | Aug 3, 2011 | Bills of Lading, Maritime
Measure of damages – time charterers confined to difference between contract and market rates. The facts The charter period was three years (thirty days, more or less, at charterers’ option) from date of delivery. After fourteen months in service along the Italian...
by michael | Aug 3, 2011 | Maritime
Measure of damages – vessel re-delivered early to owners – not a factor to be taken into account in computing damages for breach of sub-charter The facts Sub- charterers repudiated about six months before the contractual end of the sub-charter. Disponent owners...
by michael | Aug 3, 2011 | Maritime
Safe port- charterers liable for delay caused by port being unsafe. The facts The vessel, a capesize bulk carrier was fixed for a voyage from “one or two safe berths, one safe port Itaguai, Brazil, always afloat” to China with 120 000 mt of iron ore. The fixture recap...
by michael | Aug 3, 2011 | Maritime
One time charter trip – charterers obliged to find alternative lawful cargo where not possible to load intended cargo – rule B attachment in New York not a breach of the London Arbitration clause. The facts The vessel was chartered for a one time charter trip...
