Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter
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Whether time shifting from anchorage to berth and deballasting is time on demurrage
The arbitration summarized above was also concerned with a dispute as to the
period
of demurrage. The relevant contractual terms (
viz
the oil producer’s general terms and conditions) provided that total laytime allowed for loading should be 36 running hours
beginning to run from 6 hours after notice of readiness was tendered berth or no berth. It was also provided that laytime
should not include time used due to a number of express causes, and that in the absence of those excepted causes, the seller
should pay to the buyer demurrage for all such excess time at a specified rate. It was further provided that the seller should
not be liable to pay demurrage due to fault or failure of the vessel of if loading was suspended for vessel’s purposes.