Glencore Grain Ltd v Goldbeam Shipping Inc (The "Mass Glory") - QBD (Com Ct)(Moore-Bick J) - 25 January 2002

Damages for detention - Synacomex charter - Effect of laytime provisions on assessment of damages - Vessel prevented from entering berth by charterers' default - Invalid notice of readiness tendered at anchorage - Time of commencement of laytime - Whether damages too remote

On 24 November 1997 Glencore Shipping Ltd ("Glencore") entered into a contract of affreightment with Goldbeam Shipping Ltd ("Goldbeam") on the Synacomex form for the carriage of between three and five cargoes inter alia of soyapellets in bulk from South America to South East Asia and the Far East. Goldbeam nominated the vessel Mass Glory to perform one of the voyages under the contract. Goldbeam had chartered the Mass Glory on substantially the same terms from Navios International Inc ("Navios"). Navios had itself chartered the Mass Glory on time charter from her owners Bonusnauta Shipping Corp.