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Voyage charterer’s breach of contract delays redelivery of vessel by disponent owners to head owners - Measure of damages recoverable

The claimants were disponent owners of the vessel and sub chartered her to the respondents under a voyage charter for the carriage of coal from America to Spain. The claimants were stylised as time chartered owners in the charterparty, but no mention of any of the time charter terms was made in the voyage charterparty itself; it was in fact for 22/26 months and the sub-charter was the last voyage under the head-charterparty, the redelivery date being 2 February.