London Arbitration 19/18

Demurrage – Time bar – Claim documents sent to brokers – Whether brokers acting as agents for charterers – Whether brokers were intermediate brokers – Whether demurrage claims time-barred – Whether delay consequential upon vessel's engine problems counted as laytime

By a contract of affreightment (COA) the claimant owners chartered two vessels to the respondent charterers for a series of voyages with cargoes of fuel oil/bitumen mix on the terms of an amended Asbatankvoy form of charter with additional clauses.