Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter
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Effect on laytime where discharge delayed by high swell
One of the issues in this arbitration was whether delays during discharge caused by high swell at various times on five separate
days entitled the charterers to deduct such periods from the laytime. The charterparty provided that the vessel was to be
discharged within a certain number of weather working days. The question was whether “high swell” constituted “weather”.