London Arbitration 12/26

Voyage charter - Application by owners for an urgent declaratory award that they were entitled to send the vessel, which had been waiting for five weeks off a North African port, to a different port to discharge its cargo - Whether owners entitled to do so under common law or under charterparty liberty clause Procedure under LMAA Terms - Partial final declaratory award made by three-member tribunal within eight days of application

The subject vessel was chartered by the claimant owners to the respondent charterers on the Vegoilvoy form for a voyage with vegetable oil from a Black Sea port to a North African port.