SONGA PRODUCT AND CHEMICAL TANKERS III AS V KAIROS SHIPPING II LLC

[2025] EWCA Civ 1227, Court of Appeal (Civil Division), Lady Justice King, Lord Justice Phillips and Lord Justice Nugee, 7 October 2025

Charterparty (demise) – Repossession of vessel following early termination of bareboat charterparty – Location of repossession – Whether charterers required to sail vessel to owners' redelivery location – BARECON 2001

Songa was the bareboat charterer of the tanker Songa Pride under a charterparty with the Croatian shipyard that had built it, novated to a Marshall Islands SPV with the shipyard as guarantor.