Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Charterparty – Voyage charter – Owners complying with charterers’ orders not to load cargo – Whether owners entitled to recover expenses incurred in complying with orders – Whether accord and satisfaction – Whether owners entitled to remuneration for performing extra-contractual service – Whether vessel at customary anchorage – Rate of remuneration

Charterparty – Demurrage – Bunkers consumed – Charterparty clause giving liberty to charterers to instruct vessel “to stop and wait for orders” in which event charterer to pay demurrage at escalated rate and value of bunkers consumed – Whether clause applied where vessel waited over 64 days at discharge port after giving notice of readiness

Practice – Costs – Defendant rejecting claimant’s Part 36 offer – Claimant beating offer at trial – CPR 36 providing for award of enhanced interest on judgment sum and on costs – Whether provisions for enhanced interest entirely compensatory

Carriage of goods by sea – Bill of lading providing for bill to be surrendered in exchange for the goods or a “Delivery Order” – Carrier providing shipper’s agents with “Release Note” containing PIN code in accordance with electronic release system in use at discharge port – Whether “Release Note” was a “Delivery Order” – Goods misappropriated – Whether carrier in breach of contract