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Whether time shifting from anchorage to berth and deballasting is time on demurrage

The arbitration summarized above was also concerned with a dispute as to the period of demurrage. The relevant contractual terms ( viz the oil producer’s general terms and conditions) provided that total laytime allowed for loading should be 36 running hours beginning to run from 6 hours after notice of readiness was tendered berth or no berth. It was also provided that laytime should not include time used due to a number of express causes, and that in the absence of those excepted causes, the seller should pay to the buyer demurrage for all such excess time at a specified rate. It was further provided that the seller should not be liable to pay demurrage due to fault or failure of the vessel of if loading was suspended for vessel’s purposes.