Eleni Shipping Ltd v Transgrain Shipping BV (The “Eleni P”) – QBD (Comm Ct) (Popplewell J) [2019] EWHC 910 (Comm) – 10 April 2019

Charterparty – Vessel captured by pirates in Arabian Sea – Whether charter hire suspended during period of captivity

The vessel Eleni P was time-chartered on an amended NYPE 1946 form during the course of which she was ordered to load a cargo of iron ore at a port in Ukraine for discharge at Xiamen in China. The vessel was routed via the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aden.