Ship Law Log » Voyage Charters

In Sea Master Shipping Inc v Arab Bank (Switzerland) Ltd & Yousef Freiha & Sons SA EWHC 2030, Owners, in a situation where Charterers were in insolvent liquidation and unable to meet their oblig...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2020/07/31/limits-on-receivers-obligations/

The Pacific Voyager EWHC 2579 is a Commercial Court decision about which a number of articles have been written over the last week. It considers the often neglected approach voyage;  identifyin...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2017/10/31/the-approach-voyage/

ST Shipping & Transport Inc v Kriti Filoxenia Shipping Co SA EWHC 997 (Comm) Charter terms The charter, on BPVOY3 form, provided that subject to the provisions of clause 24, the vessel would pro...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2015/06/05/charterers-held-to-have-lost-right-to-cancel-where-revised-loadport-orders-given/

Trafigura Beheer BV v Navigazione Montanari SpA EWCA Civ 91 The subject vessel was chartered to carry a cargo of oil from Abidjan, Ivory Coast to Lagos, Nigeria. Clause 46 of the charter (on an ...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2015/03/05/loss-of-cargo-due-to-piracy-held-not-to-be-an-in-transit-loss/

Kassiopi Maritime Co Ltd v Fal Shipping Co Ltd EWHC 318 (Comm) Owners and Charterers had entered into a voyage charter on the BPVOY4 form. The charter contained the following provisions: Clause ...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2015/03/02/court-considers-the-documents-required-to-be-supplied-in-support-of-a-demurrage-claim-under-bpvoy4/

London Arbitration 3/15 A vessel was chartered for one voyage from “1-2 load berth chop always afloat Santander” to a port in the UK. Charterers ordered the vessel to load bulk bauxite at a b...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2015/02/16/owners-demurrage-claim-succeeds-where-charterers-fail-to-bring-themselves-within-a-force-majeure-clause/

Ebola continues to spread in West Africa with the latest reports indicating that over 2,630 people have died since the outbreak began. Yesterday, Malta turned away a vessel travelling from Guinea...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2014/09/19/ebola-fears-impact-on-vessels-travelling-from-west-africa/

More than 1000 people have died in West Africa following the current outbreak of Ebola which began in March 2014. Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are the worst affected countries but deaths have...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2014/09/05/ebola-and-its-effect-on-shipping-contracts/

Also written by Alexander Sandiforth. London Arbitration 10/14 The vessel was the subject of a voyage charter containing the following at clause 11: “Any dispute arising from and in respect of ...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2014/06/06/tribunal-finds-that-time-bar-does-not-apply-in-circumstances-where-no-cargo-was-loaded/

London Arbitration 11/14 The vessel was the subject of a voyage charter, under which the vessel was not accepted for loading. Owners argued that the rejection amounted to a repudiatory breach by ...

https://www.shiplawlog.com/2014/04/30/tribunal-finds-that-lack-of-adequate-mooring-facilities-meant-that-a-vessel-was-not-in-every-way-fitted-for-the-voyage/