ED & F Man Sugar Ltd v Belmont Shipping Ltd (The “Amplify”) – QBD (Com Ct)(Teare J) – 18 November 2011

Arbitration – Serious irregularity – Demurrage dispute – Documents only arbitration – Charterers alleging that arbitrators knew that charterers had made a concession that need not have been made – Whether arbitrators under a duty to alert charterers – Whether failure to do so constituted serious irregularity

The claimant charterers chartered the vessel Amplify from the defendant owners under a charterparty on an amended Sugar Charter Party 1999 form dated 30 July 2009 for a voyage from Santos, Brazil to India.