High Seas Venture Ltd Partnership v Sinom (Hong Kong) Ltd [2007] EWHC 673 (Comm)

Whether a provision in a voyage charterparty concerning calculation of laytime could be taken as definitive – probative value of provision

The facts

High Seas Venture Ltd Partnership (the owners) chartered out the Newforest on voyage charter of December 2004 to Sinom (Hong Kong) Ltd (the charterers). The charterparty at clause 11 provided for demurrage and dispatch calculation as follows: