London Arbitration 27/17

Charterparty – Cargo shortage – Charterparty providing that owners not to be responsible for shortages ascertained by shore scales at discharge port so long as seals remained intact – Receivers making cargo shortage claim against shipowners based on discharge port shore scales – Owners settling with receivers – Whether settlement reasonable – Whether owners entitled to indemnity from charterers – Demurrage

By a charterparty on an amended Synacomex 2000 form, evidenced by a fixture recap, the claimant owners chartered the subject vessel to the respondent charterers for a voyage from Berdyansk in Ukraine to Alexandria in Egypt with a cargo of wheat in bulk.