London Arbitration 9/11

Demurrage – Whether owners required to give notice of readiness at second loading port – Commencement of laytime – Whether conditions constituted “weather working days” – Whether statement of facts conclusive – Calculation of laytime and demurrage – Basis of claim for additional freight

The vessel was chartered on the Gencon form for the carriage of 35,000 mt iron ore fines in bulk from Haldia and Krishnapatnam in India to, in the event, Luoyuan in China. The charterparty provided: