WHITE ROCK CORPORATION LTD V MIDDLE VOLGA SHIPPING COMPANY AND OTHERS

[2025] EWHC 2089 (Comm), Commercial Court (KBD), Peter MacDonald Eggers KC (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court), 7 August 2025

Jurisdiction – Time charterparty – Jurisdiction clause – Identity of disponent owner under time charterparty – CPR rule 6.33(2B)(b) and (c)

The claimant charterers WR had in March 2022 chartered four vessels under time charterparties concluded by fixture recap.