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Blogs on maritime case law and a few other things

Mar 28, 2022
1 min

Demurrage compensates only for lost freight?

If laytime is exceeded, demurrage kicks in to compensate a shipowner for the loss of prospective freight earnings. But is that all...

Nov 30, 2021
2 min

Laytime / demurrage

Demurrage, time bars and time zones

An interesting one for those in commercial operations. What time zone should be used to determine whether a demurrage claim is time...

Jan 24, 2021
1 min

Laytime / demurrage

Demurrage & time bar

A voyage charter normally has rider clauses requiring owners to submit specified documents within a certain period of time when making a...

Dec 31, 2020
1 min

Voyage charter

Laytime stops if discharge is delayed by government interferences?

Submitting false documents for clearance of cargo is never a good idea. In the case of The Muammer Yagci [2018], it led to a 4.5 month...

Dec 30, 2020
1 min

Laytime / demurrage

Demurrage claims, supporting docs & time bars

When submitting a demurrage claim, C/Ps usually requires the owner to submit all supporting documents within a certain time period after...

Dec 31, 2019
1 min

Laytime / demurrage

Demurrage claim docs - owners need to re-submit what charterers already have?

When making a demurrage claim C/Ps usually require submission of all supporting documents. But what are these? What if some of them are...

Dec 31, 2019
1 min

Laytime / demurrage

Leaving the berth due to bad wx - laytime clock stops?

Ordering a vessel off the berth in anticipation of bad weather is standard protocol ports follow for safety reasons. This could (and does...

Dec 23, 2018
1 min

Sale contracts

Sales contract & C/P are separate documents

In Gunvor v Crugas [2018] a sales contract was concluded for sale of gasoline CIF Hoeeidah. It required the buyer to pay “demurrage as...

Dec 16, 2018
1 min

Laytime / demurrage

Vessel waiting for orders - a demurrage or detention claim?

In the absence of a clause giving a party the right to direct the vessel to wait for orders, they nonetheless order the vessel to wait...

Aug 26, 2018
1 min

Laytime / demurrage

A case of mistaken identity when serving demurrage documents

Given that there can be multiple brokers involved in chartering, it can sometimes be difficult to identify for which party is a broker...

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M-info

Blogs on maritime case law and a few other things

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Siddharth Mahajan

Nishant Dhyani

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