Marimpex Mineraloel-Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG and ors v Compagnie de Gestion Et D’Exploitation Ltd (The ‘Ambor’/’Once’) - QBD (Com Ct)(Peter Gross QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) - 25 October 2000

Time charter - Final voyage - Whether clause 19 of Shelltime 4 form entitled charterers to give orders for what would otherwise have been an illegitimate last voyage

The vessel Ambor was chartered on the Shelltime 4 form dated 3 July 1987. Later, the vessel Once was substituted for the Ambor. Clause 4 of the charterparty defined the charterparty period as follows: