Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Evans L.JJ.) - 25 March 1993 The claimant owners brought arbitration proceedings claiming in excess of $73,000 as the balance of hire due under a time charterparty. On 22 June 1990, about a month before the hearing, the respondent charterers made a..

The vessel was chartered on the Gencon form for the carriage of a part-cargo of bagged fishmeal. The fishmeal was loaded in the bottoms of each of the ship’s five holds. It was then over-stowed by another similar cargo which was carried under..

The vessel was chartered on the Asbatankvoy form. When the ship arrived at the discharge port (when she was already on demurrage) she was not able to reach a berth because of weather conditions. She accordingly gave notice of readiness and anchored..

The voyage charterers had difficulty in providing all the cargo promptly at the loading port. After the ship had loaded for about a day the owners threatened to sail on the grounds that, according to them, the second part of the charterers’..