What takes precedence - commercial pressures or the UKC policy and the necessary safety margins?
Breaching the UKC policy for commercial reasons is a calculated risk taken frequently. Sometimes the safety margins are however just too...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- 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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Jan 24, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
Covid, demurrage and force majeure
Covid-19 has led to unprecedented disruptions to logistical chains. Either the goods can’t arrive in port or where they can, pick up...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 30, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 31, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 31, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Oct 27, 2019
- 1 min
Bad wx preventing barges from coming alongside - can laytime start?
Is a storm warning sufficient to interrupt laytime? and if bad weather prevents the lightering barges from coming alongside the mother...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 23, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Dec 16, 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Oct 7, 2018
- 1 min
Dispute on who the shipowner is? Q88 to the rescue.
Q88 (Tanker Questionnaire) is a key document when it comes to tanker chartering. Just how important a part it can play in the event of a...
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Siddharth Mahajan
- Aug 26, 2018
- 1 min
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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Siddharth Mahajan
- Aug 12, 2018
- 1 min
Anchored at coalition holding area off Yemen - is the NOR valid or not?
Various kinds of C/P issues are bound to arise from the ongoing conflict in Yemen. Most recently, in London Arbitration 16/18, a dispute...
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