London Arbitration 2/26

Voyage charter - Despatch - Laytime calculations - Use of ship's cranes restricted by master to three out of four for simultaneous working due to overheating - Whether the vessel was to be treated as a four-hook ship as warranted or a three-hook ship as operated - Whether laytime to be calculated on the actual working capacity (three hooks) Procedure - LMAA Small Claims Procedure - Respondent not participating

The subject vessel was chartered by the respondent owners to the claimant charterers for a voyage with a cargo of bagged rice from India to Bangladesh.