Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Time charter - Claim for unpaid hire - BIMCO Hull Fouling Clause - Whether the charterers were liable for costs of cleaning propeller and sea chest gratings which took place after redelivery or for a lump sum - Bunkers on redelivery - Discrepancy in figures for bunkers stemmed at redelivery port - Letter of protest from the master - Whether quantity of VLSFO in redelivery certificate relied upon by the charterers had been altered - Deviation - Whether the master was entitled to sail east of Madagascar and not to follow the route recommended by the charterers' weather routing company

Time charter - Claim for unpaid hire - Amount of balance due to the owners - Costs - Whether the owners should be treated as wholly successful or whether an apportionment of costs was justified - Appropriate interest rates - Whether pre-arbitration costs recoverable - Whether "without prejudice save as to costs" lump sum offers had been beaten