Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse SA v MT Maritime Management BV (The “MTM Hong Kong”) – QBD (Comm Ct) (Males J) [2015] EWHC 2505 (Comm) – 1 September 2015

Charterparty – Damages – Time charter wrongfully terminated by charterers – Owners concluding substitute fixture – Whether damages limited by reference to period when contract voyage would have ended

On 6 January 2011 the vessel MTM Hong Kong, an oil/chemical tanker, was chartered on an amended Vegoil form for the carriage of vegoil from two safe ports/berths within a range of load ports in South America, to one safe berth at 1-4 safe ports in the Gibraltar-Rotterdam range.