London Arbitration 12/19

Laytime – Commencement of laytime – Validity of notice of readiness – Weather working days – Whether time to be excluded for threat of bad weather – Whether charterers entitled to rely on force majeure – Whether charterers entitled to deduct period of bad weather

Having ruled in London Arbitration 11/19 ((2019) 1030 LMLN 2) that the charterers were not entitled to serve their defence and counterclaim submissions, the tribunal proceeded to determine the substance of the owners’ demurrage claim.