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Shipbroking and Chartering Practice


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Index

Index

  • BAF 49
  • Baltic Code of Ethics 276–278
  • Baltic Exchange 93–94
  • bareboat charter 230, 389–400
    • claims against third parties 399
    • cost allocation 399–400
    • definition 389–391
    • delivery of cargo 397
    • hire 397–398
    • lien and indemnity 398–99
    • loading and discharging operation 396–397
    • salvage and towage 399
    • vessel 391–396
      • assignment of charter 396
      • commercial operation and management 393
      • delivery 392
      • description 391–392
      • equipment and provisions 394
      • insurances 394–396
      • maintenance and repair 396
      • manning 394
      • navigation 394
      • redelivery 393
      • sale 396
      • seaworthiness and condition 392–393
      • sub-demise 396
  • Barecon 2001 95, 661–673
  • barges 42
  • BDI 81
  • BFI 82
  • bibliography 719–725
  • BIFFEX 82
  • bill of lading 189–202
    • bankability 198–199
    • bulk/tramp shipping 92
    • carrier’s relationship with shipper and consignee 193
    • clean 196–197
    • confirmation of receipt of goods for transport 194–196
    • contents 190
    • destination 201
    • document of title, as 194
    • evidence of contract of carriage, as 197–198
    • issue 189
    • liner shipping 192
    • negotiable 201
    • non-negotiable 201–202
    • purposes 190
    • received for shipment 200
    • standard forms 193
    • terms and conditions 193
    • types 200–202
  • BIMCO 94–95
  • BIMCO approved documents 235
  • broker 102
  • bulk cargoes 11–12
  • bulk carriers 16–20
    • sub-segments 17–20
  • bulk shipping v liner shipping 7–11
    • charter types and contracts 8
    • employment of ships 7–8
    • freight 8–9
    • kind of carriage 8
    • seeking of cargo 9–10
    • type of cargo 8

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      type of market 9
    • type of ownership/management 10
    • type of vessels 8
  • bunkers clauses 314
  • CAF 49
  • calculation of income 446–449
  • calculation of costs 437–446
  • can 307–308
  • capesize 52–54
  • car carriers 39–40
  • cargo liability 308–309
  • cargoes 11–16
    • factors affecting suitability for bulk or liner shipment 13–14
    • loading factors for dry and liquid bulks 14–16
  • carriage of goods by sea 186–189
    • international conventions 186–188
    • relationship with other means of transportation 188–189
  • carrier’s liability 205–215
    • cargo claims and time limits 212–213
    • date of bill of lading 214–215
    • Hamburg rules 215
    • liability for cargo under charterparties 205–206
    • liability for inspection and description of goods 214
    • liability rules 208–209
    • liability system 210–212
    • limitation 213
    • scope of application of international cargo conventions 209–210
    • sea carrier’s liability statutory regime 206–208
  • CD 448–449
  • cesser and lien 343–45
    • exercising lien 344–345
    • justification and validity of cesser clause 344
    • owners collecting from receivers or shippers 345
  • CFR 180
  • charter chains 243–245
  • charter contract 299–324
  • charter forms 219–245
  • charter market 1–42
    • bulk shipping v liner shipping 7–11
    • chartering definitions 1–3
    • segmentation 1–11, 7
  • charter rates 43–83
  • charter types and documents 239
  • charterer’s requirements in dry bulk market 138–139
  • charterer’s requirements in liquid bulk (tanker) market 131–138
  • chartering documents 233–239
  • chartering information 85–110
  • chartering negotiation 247–275
  • chartering policy of charterers and shippers 131–146
  • chartering policy of shipowners 146–154
    • bulk and liner markets 146–148
    • commercial risks 148–151
      • bunkers risk 150
      • chartering oriented, operational, navigational and geographical 149
      • chartering strategy and policy risk 150
      • credit risk 151
      • currency risk 150
      • ethical 149
      • financial 148–149
      • freight risk 151
      • inflation risk 151
      • interest risk 151
      • legal 149
      • market risk 149
      • opportunity cost risk 151
      • risk of damage 151
      • risk of death or injury 151
      • risk of delay 151
      • risk of loss 150
      • risk of timing at decision-making 149–150
    • factors affecting 151–154
    • geographical and trading limits of ships employment 153
    • policy of shipowners as approved by investors/shareholders 153
    • quality of fleet 153
    • relationship and experience with certain charterers/shippers 153
    • state of freight market and expectations 151
    • state of world economy and seaborne trade 152
    • sub-contract 152–153

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      type of cargo and trade 153–154
    • type of vessels 153
    • voyage estimations 152
  • chartering routines 247–278
  • charterparty broker 102
  • chemical tankers 23, 65, 66
  • CIF 180
  • CIP 180
  • civil law 280
  • CoA 2, 223, 232, 254–257, 266, 400–416, 455–456
  • collision 321–323
  • combined carriers 32
  • commencement of time counting 487–489
  • commercial management 124–129
    • chartering alternatives 126–127
    • decision-making 124–125
    • highlights from chartering business perspective 127–129
    • importance 124–129
    • ship’s alternative types of deployment 126
    • vessel routing 126–127
  • common charterparty clauses and concepts 299–324
  • common law 279–280
  • competitive broker 101, 102, 103
  • Congenbill 2016 689–690
  • Conlinebill 2016 691
  • Conlinebooking 2016 685–686
  • consecutive voyage charter 231
  • consignment note 191
  • construction and interpretation of charter agreements 274, 289–298
    • rules for charter documents 295–298
  • containerships market 70–79
    • demand factors 74
    • intermediary and old panamax market 73
    • neo-panamax 71–72
    • post-panamax 71
    • small containerships 73–74
    • state of 75–79
    • supply factors 74–75
  • containerships 32–35
    • most important features of market 34–35
    • Panama Canal restrictions 33–34
    • size and speed 34
  • containerships indicative types of employment 71
  • contract law 281–283
  • contract of affreightment (CoA) 2, 232, 400–416
    • cargo 410–413
    • characteristics, terms and examples 403–405
    • cost allocation
    • definitions 400–406
    • documents 405–406
    • individual clauses 415
    • need 401
    • nomination procedure 414–415
    • period 406–410
      • alternative ways to define 407
      • commencement and terminations 407–408
      • early termination of contract 408–410
      • interruptions of operations 408–410
    • programme of shipments 414–415
    • scope and benefit 401–403
    • shipbroker’s role 415–416
    • terminology 403
    • vessels 413–414
  • contract of carriage
    • sales of cargo, interface with 199
  • contracting parties 283–284
  • COP 499
  • cost allocation 51, 242, 314, 399
  • cost allocation per charter type 242–243
  • cost variations
    • clauses dealing with cost allocation 314–315
    • effect on contractual relationship 311–315
      • bunkers clauses 314
      • currency clauses 312–313
      • escalation clauses 313–314
    • frustration of charter contract 315–316
  • court proceedings 285–286
  • counter-offers 91
  • CPT 180
  • CQD 499
  • currency clauses 312–313
  • FAC 499
  • FAK 49
  • FAS 179
  • FCA 179
  • FFA 82–83
  • FOB 179–180
  • follow-up stage 272–275
  • FONASBA 96–97
  • FONASBA Time Charter Interpretation Code 2000 657–660
  • forwarding agent 108
  • freight broker 102
  • freight calculations 417–476

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    freight derivatives 81–83
  • freight forwarder 108
  • freight indices 80–81
    • Baltic Exchange 80–81
    • BDI 81
    • weighted calculation system 80
  • freight market 43–83
  • freight market analysis 51
    • containers market see containerships market
    • dry bulk market 52–60 see also dry bulk market
    • gas carrier market see also gas carrier market
    • tanker market see tanker market
  • freight market mechanism 43–48
    • new builds, and 47
    • demand for tonnage 46–47
    • forecasting 46
  • frustration of charter contract 315–316
  • further research 727–730
  • Hamburg rules
    • basic features 215
  • handymax market 55–56
  • handysize market 56–57
  • heavy-lift carriers 41–42
  • hire 367–371
    • deductions from 371
    • fixing 368
    • late payment 369–370
    • owners’ security 369–370
    • payment 368
    • payment of last instalment 371
  • ice clause 330
  • ICS 97
  • in-house broker 102
  • Incoterms 2010® rules 177–182
  • Incoterms® rules 173–182
    • risk, cost and liability distribution 174–177
  • indication 91, 261–266
  • information centres 93–97
  • information coverage 98–99
  • information handlers 99–108
  • information network 98
  • insurance matters 216–217
    • cargo insurance 217
    • liability against third parties 216–217
    • P & I cover 217
  • INTERCARGO 95
  • Inter-Club NYPE Agreement 383
  • internet sources 727–730
  • INTERTANKO 95–96
  • ISM 323–324
  • lay 306–307
  • lay/can 306–308
  • laydays 492–495
  • laytime 340,595–598
  • laytime allowance 489–499
    • available hatch 490
    • calculable laytime 498
    • definite laytime 492–498
    • indefinite laytime 499
    • workable hatch 490
  • laytime calculations 477–526
    • comparison of normal, reversible and average laytime 520–524
    • comparison of weather working days of 24 consecutive hours (or working days weather permitting) with weather working days 524
    • comparison of Laytime Definitions 2013 with Voylayrules ’93 516–517
    • demurrage and damages for detention 502–506
    • despatch 503, 506
    • final analysis and result 501–507
    • importance of all charterparty provisions 516
    • more than one charterer for specific voyage 516
    • NOR 507–508
    • practical examples 517–526
    • purposes 478
    • SOF (statement of facts) 508
    • stages and documents 507–509
    • time sheets 508–509
    • voyage charterparty 507
  • laytime counting and exceptions 500–501

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    Laytime Definition for Charter Parties 2013 595–598
  • letter of credit 171, 172, 173, 176, 182–186, 195, 196, 198, 550, 687
  • liability rules 208–209
  • liner agents 106–108
  • liner freight market 44
  • liner pricing 48–50
    • contract-based 49
    • deferred rebate schemes 49
    • tariff-based 49
  • liner shipping 7–11
  • liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) 26–28
  • liquid and dry cargo laytime 509–516
  • litigation 287–288
  • LNGVOY 95
  • load lines 428–431
  • local charterers 103
  • LPG 26–28, 69–70, 77, 552
    • market sub-segments 27–28
  • management agreement 240–242
  • management of shipping companies 241
  • maritime lien 318–319
  • market reports 85–86
  • marketing of shipping companies 154–156
  • marketing strategy 158–169
    • differentiation and positioning strategies 167–169
    • geographical differentiation 167–168
    • image differentiation 168
    • paperless trade 165–166
    • people 163
    • personnel and crew differentiation 168
    • physical evidence-ship 165
    • place-ports 163–164
    • positioning strategy 168
    • price-freight 161
    • process 161–162
    • product-service 159–161
    • promotion 164–165
    • qualitative differentiation 167
    • shipping marketing mix 159–166
    • tools of shipping marketing mix 166
  • mate’s receipt 189
  • measurement of cargo 431–437
    • capacity of vessel 431–432
    • cubic capacity 432
    • deadweight tonnage capacity 432
    • displacement tonnage 435–437
    • registered tonnage 432
  • measurements 715–718
  • multi-purpose vessels 35–36
  • near clause 329–330
  • neo-panamax 71–72
  • notice time 485–486
    • laytime counting during 486
    • length 485–486
    • time before first layday 486
  • notice of vessel’s arrival and readiness 483–485
    • lay/can 485
    • NOR in each port 485
    • sea notice 484
    • time of NOR provisions 483–484
    • written notice 483
  • NYPE 2015 625–656
  • ocean currents 427
  • off-hire 371–375
    • claim 372–373
    • grounds for 373
    • importance 371–372
    • insurance for loss of hire 375
    • loss of money: deduction of off-hire 375
    • loss of time 374
    • obligations during off-hire periods 375
    • threshold rule 373–374
  • offer 91, 290–292
  • offshore vessels 29–32
    • buoy loader 29
    • drilling rig 29
    • drilling vessel 29
    • FPSO/FSO unit 29–30
    • general characteristics of market 31–32
    • oil platform 29
    • shuttle tanker 29
  • open freight market 44
  • order 86–91
  • panamax
  • Papadopoulos, Mr Anthony xxv–xxvi
  • paramount clause 308–309
  • parties to contract 300–302
    • identity 301
    • substitution of owner or charterer 301–302
  • passenger vessels 38–39
  • piracy 324
  • Plomaritou, Dr Evi xxv
  • pontoon 42
  • port agent 105–106
  • position list 91
  • post-panamax market 71
  • reachable on arrival 480–481
  • reefer vessels 36–38
    • general characteristics of market 37–38
  • risks
    • bunkers risk 150
    • chartering oriented, operational, navigational and geographical 149
    • chartering strategy and policy risk 150
    • credit risk 151
    • currency risk 150
    • ethical 149
    • financial 148–149
    • freight risk 151
    • inflation risk 151
    • interest risk 151
    • legal 149
    • market risk 149
    • opportunity cost risk 151
    • risk of damage 151
    • risk of death or injury 151
    • risk of delay 151
    • risk of loss 150
    • risk of timing at decision-making 149–150
  • ro-ro vessels 38–39
    • general characteristics of market 39
  • rules of chartering negotiations 276–278
  • sales contract
    • basic agreement in export transaction 172–173
    • contractual relations under 177
  • sea voyage 331
  • sea waybill 191
  • seaworthiness 305–306
  • Shelltime 4 609–623
  • Shellvoy 6 573–594
  • shipbroker (chartering broker) 99–105
    • address commission 104
    • brokerage 104
    • commission 104
    • committed 103
    • exclusive 103
    • fix best possible 103
    • functions 101–102
    • printed contract term 104
    • remuneration 104
    • specialisation 100
  • Shipman 2009 693
  • ship management 115–124
    • agreement 116
    • ancillary services 120
    • commercial and operational services 119–120
    • commercial, importance of 124–129 see also commercial management
    • crew management services 118–119
    • definition 115–116
    • fixture services 119
    • management fee 115
    • marketing services 120
    • models 120–124
    • operational (post-fixture) services 119–120
    • pre-fixture services 119
    • professional supply 115
    • separate from vessel’s ownership 116
    • services 116–120
    • technical management services 117–118
    • third-party companies 115–116
  • ship ownership 111–115
    • fleet diversification 111
    • fleet specialisation 111
    • private bulk shipping group 112–113
    • public diversified shipping group 114
    • semi-public shipping group 114–115
    • shipping corporate 113
    • shipping division 113–114
  • shippers’ requirements in liner market 139–143
    • co-operation with carrier 141–142

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      information systems 142–143
    • low cost 141
    • quality of transport services 139–140
    • reputation and image of liner operator 141
    • safety management 140–141
  • shipping marketing with customer orientation 156–158
  • signing of agreement 302
  • SIRE programme 132–133
  • small containerships market 73–74
  • small vessels 41
  • space (slot) charter 232–233
  • special chartering routine 275–276
  • special estimations 455–458
  • specialised vessels 41–42
  • specific gravity 17
  • spot charter 2
  • spot market 44, 45
  • spot trades 53
  • stage of investigation 248
    • cargo order 248
    • cargo order at a bareboat charter 256–257
    • cargo order at a CoA charter 245–255
    • cargo order at a round voyage time charter 253–254
    • cargo order at a time charter 252–253
    • cargo order at a voyage charter 250–252
    • position list 248, 257–258
  • stage of negotiation 258–272
  • standard charterparties 681–683
  • stowage factor 14–16, 716–717
  • strike clause 342
  • subject provisions 268–269, 292–295
  • suezmax 61–62
  • supramax 55–56
  • tanker estimations 458–476
  • tanker market 60–69
    • aframax market 62–64
    • chemical tankers 65–66
    • chemical tankers indicative spot trades 66–67
    • demand factors 66
    • product tankers: panamax and handy market 64–65
    • state of 68–69
    • suezmax market 61–62
    • supply factors 67–68
    • VLCC market 60–61
  • tanker market report 88
  • tankers 20–25
    • aframax 21
    • characteristics of market 24–25
    • chemical 23
    • crude 22
    • handysize 22
    • panamax 21–22
    • product 22
    • small 22
    • specialised 23
    • suezmax 21
    • ULCC 21
    • VLCC 21
  • time charter 2, 227–230, 351–387
    • allocation of costs 376–379, 379
    • cargo 361–362
      • excluded 362
      • specification 361
    • cargo liability 380–384
      • allocation of cargo liability 382–384
      • liability to cargo owners 380–382
    • customary assistance and overtime 378
    • damage to vessel 384–387
      • bad weather, collision and grounding 384
      • cargo, from 385
      • causes 386
      • fuel oil, from 384–385
      • protective clauses 387
      • repair 386–387
    • damages and pre-termination of charter 375–376
    • definition 351–352
    • directions and instructions to vessel 376–377
    • hire 367–371 see also hire
    • information 379
    • Inter-Club NYPE Agreement 383
    • master’s position 377–378
    • off-hire see off-hire
    • period 362

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        allocation of costs at delivery and redelivery 366–367
      • condition of vessel on delivery and redelivery 365–366
      • delivery and redelivery of vessel 363–364
      • extension due to off-hire periods 363
      • length of 362
      • overlap/underlap – last voyage 362–363
      • place of vessel’s delivery and redelivery 365
      • time of vessel’s delivery and redelivery 365
    • routines 376–379
    • trade 357–361
      • ballast bonus 360–361
      • breaking of limits 359
      • geographical limits 357–358
      • non-geographical limits 358–359
      • requirements 359
      • trip time charter 359–360
    • time charter rates of major ship types 78
    • vessel 352–357
      • cargo capacity 354
      • description 352–354
      • seaworthiness and maintenance 356–357
      • speed and bunker consumption 355–356
  • time limits 316–317
  • time risk during sea voyage 478
  • TMSA 133
  • transport chain 175
  • transport documents 238
  • trip time charter 359–360
  • tugs 42
  • ULCC 21
  • ultramax market 55–56

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