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Demurrage - Vessel delayed by bad weather after arrival at loading port

The vessel was delayed by bad weather after arrival at the loading port. Clause 6 of the Tanker Motor Vessel Voyage form charter provided that the ship was to “load . . . at a place or at a dock or alongside lighters reachable on her arrival, which shall be indicated by charterers . . .” and by clause 7 the laytime was to “commence from the time the vessel is ready to receive . . . her cargo, the Captain giving six hours’ notice to the charterers’ agents, berth or no berth”. Typewritten clause 28 read: