Withheld hire and withdrawal of vessel

In Quiana Navigation SA v Pacific Gulf Shipping (Singapore) Pte Ltd (The Caravos Liberty) [2019] EWHC 3171 (Comm), Cockerill J considered the issue of the duration of the owners’ right to withdraw the vessel for failure to pay hire. Charterers having withheld hire in part in a previous instalment arguably meant that all following payments were also short. Was the owners’ right to withdraw the vessel resurrected each time hire fell due?

The Caravos Liberty : the facts