Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Charterparty - Effect of contamination - Synacomex 2000 Form - Liability for delay caused by fumigation - Appeal against award - Remission - Upholding the award on different grounds - Arbitration Act 1996, section 69 - CPR PD 62

Voyage charter - Application by owners for an urgent declaratory award that they were entitled to send the vessel, which had been waiting for five weeks off a North African port, to a different port to discharge its cargo - Whether owners entitled to do so under common law or under charterparty liberty clause Procedure under LMAA Terms - Partial final declaratory award made by three-member tribunal within eight days of application