Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Demurrage – Fixture recap incorporating charterparty – Fixture recap also incorporating berth operator’s rules – Charterparty and berth operator’s rules providing for different regimes for commencement of laytime – Whether commencement of laytime governed by charterparty terms or by berth operator’s rules

Practice – Summary judgment – Duty of care – Bangladeshi worker suffering fatal accident in course of demolition of vessel in Bangladeshi shipyard – Widow bringing action in negligence against English company responsible for selling vessel for scrap – Defendant applying for reverse summary judgment on basis that no arguable duty of care was owed – Whether arguable that defendant owed duty of care – Whether claim time-barred under Bangladeshi law – Whether claim should be struck out

Charterparty – Time charter – Whether implied term that owners would not revoke charterers’ authority to collect bill of lading freight from sub-charterer unless hire and/or sums were due to the owners under the charterparty