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Charterparty providing that owners not to be responsible for shortlanded cargo - Whether Inter-Club Agreement applicable

Clause 62 of the NYPE charterparty in this case provided that owners agreed that liability for cargo claims, as between owners and charterers, should be apportioned as specified by the Inter-Club Agreement. The clause in the printed form of the charterer relating to cargo responsibility were not materially amended. However, the last sentence of clause 46 read: “Owners not to be responsible for shortlanded cargo.”