Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter
London Arbitration 15/26
Time charter - NYPE 1946 form - Time charter trip - Delay in berthing at discharge port - Whether owners entitled not to proceed to discharge and to wait for payment of hire up to new estimated redelivery date - Whether charterers entitled to deduction for off-hire - Underperformance claim - Whether charterers' evidence from weather routing company compliant with charterparty good weather and sea conditions criteria - Bunkers on redelivery - Whether owners were obliged to arrange an independent survey on redelivery - Whether owners' calculations reliable - Hull fouling - Whether owners obliged to prove condition of hull on delivery
The subject vessel was chartered by the claimant owners to the respondent charterers for a time charter trip of one laden
leg on an amended NYPE 1946 form with additional clauses.