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Time charter advice
- Approval by oil majors - Clauses to be avoided
- Approval of the vessel
- Arrest of vessels for time charterers' debts
- Bottom fouling
- Breaking IWL clauses
- Bunker issues
- Cargo liability
- Charter party advice on Danish Straits pilotage
- Charterers to be liable for employment of “customary” pilotage
- Charterers to provide
- Clauses adding off-hire periods to period of hire and “last voyage” clauses
- Cleaning of holds
- Cleaning sludge tanks
- Commission on advances NYPE
- Commission on ballast bonus
- Compulsory gangway watchmen - NYPE
- Cost of security guards
- Crew list visas and shore pases
- Customary pilotage
- Customary pilotage - Clauses to be avoided
- Delivery / redelivery local times or GMT - NYPE
- Delivery taking inward pilot - vessel waiting for pilot
- Description of the vessel
- Deviation to save life and property
- Deviation for dry-docking
- Duration qualified by “about” & “without guarantee”
- Effects of piracy on time charter parties
- Gangway watchmen
- Garbage removal
- Geographical ranges
- Hire of tug hawsers
- Hire "per calendar month"
- Illegitimate voyage orders - SHELLTIME 4
- International Group issues new charter party clause promoting the use of the Inter-Club Agreement
- Is Venice East or West of Cape Passero?
- Legitimate versus illegitimate last voyage orders
- Master deciding to transit Magellan Strait instead of rounding Cape Horn - NYPE
- No loss of time, no off-hire - NYPE
- Non-payment of hire
- Off-hire - consequential delay - NYPE
- Off-hire - some comments on the NYPE form
- On/off-hire survey
- Payment of hire - NYPE 46
- Performance clauses to be avoided
- Place of redelivery
- Places of delivery/redelivery
- Port agents
- Port State Control inspections
- Redelivery “in like good order”
- Redelivery notices
- Ships' certificates
- Special requirements
- Speed and consumption claims
- Term of hire
- Time charter party forms
- Time charter trip about 60 days without guarantee
- Time charter trip "about ... days without guarantee"
- Time of delivery / redelivery
- Trading limits
- Voluntary contributions
- War clauses to be avoided
- Whether off-hire periods may be added to period of hire
- Without guarantee
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Voyage charter advice
- About "about"
- Acceptance of notice of readiness - shifting time - GENCON
- Additional clauses
- Agency fees for tramp vessels
- Always accessible, what does it mean?
- Arbitration clauses
- Arbitration clauses - time bar
- Asbatankvoy pumping warranty
- Breakdown of shore appliances - whether laytime is suspended
- Brokers
- Bunkers
- Cancelling date passed - whether vessel must proceed to point of delivery
- Cargo manifests
- Cargo description and quantity
- Change of destination
- Commission on demurrage - GENCON
- Contracts of affreightment (COA) – bulk cargoes
- Contractual cargo quantity exceeded - whether owners entitled to freight for quantity carried
- Customary quick despatch
- Customs supervision
- Cyber fraud
- Deadfreight and laytime calculation
- Define your terms!
- Define your terms!
- Demurrage
- Demurrage and exceptions clauses
- Despatch
- Despatch on all time saved
- Disbursements accounts - advance funds
- Discharging into barges - Weather hindrances - GENCON
- Discharging port rotation
- Dockage dues at Los Angeles - "Warshipoilvoy" charter
- Exceptions from laytime
- Excess cargo loaded - freight basis quantity carried
- Expected ready to load versus laydays/-cancelling
- Flag waiver (Liner Code)
- Free pratique - a thing of the past?
- Free time used for cargo work
- Free time used v. time used in excepted periods
- Freight payable at destination
- Freight payment ”within 3 banking days but in any event before breaking bulk”
- Freight payment arrangements
- General exception clauses
- Geographical rotation
- Heavy delay in loading due to shortage of cargo - C(Ore)7
- Ice clauses
- In-transit fumigation - delay and expenses at discharge port
- Is the charter party issued correctly?
- ISPS related charges
- Know your contractual partner
- Laydays - cancelling date
- Laytime and general exceptions clauses
- Laytime allowed
- Laytime at multiple discharge ports
- Laytime exception clauses
- Laytime exceptions - wind
- Laytime - weather working day
- Lien and cesser clauses
- Loading one port 1 to 3 berths Columbia River
- Misuse of the term "subject stem" and similar expressions
- NAABSA – Are you covered?
- Nomination of discharging port
- Non-execution - brokerage
- Notice given at the pilot station
- Notice of readiness/commencement of laytime
- Office hours for the purpose of tendering notice of readiness
- Once on demurrage always on demurrage
- Performance clause
- Port agents
- Port versus Berth charter
- Prior entry versus final entry at Indian ports
- Prolonged stay in port
- Protective clauses
- Receiving cargo - vessel to be ready to receive cargo to receiver's inspector's satisfaction
- Recommencement of laytime at second and subsequent discharging ports - whether notice of readiness is required at each port
- Representations in the charter party
- Reversible laytime
- Safe port - safe berth
- Settlement of balances
- Statements of facts
- Statements of facts versus "Weather Reports", etc,
- Strike clauses
- Strike Clause - GENCON 1976
- Sub stem fixture
- Suitability for grab discharge
- Suitability for grab discharge - Tweendeck - AFRICANPHOS 1950
- Super Holidays
- Supervision fees
- Tally
- Tendering notice of readiness before first layday
- Tendering notice of readiness prior to first layday
- Timber trade - packaged goods
- Time bar clause
- Time bar clauses
- Time used to conduct draft checks during loading
- Turn time - notice time
- Use of proper charter party forms
- Vessel prevented from berthing by congestion and tide
- Vessels readiness
- Waiting for berth - readiness - AUSTWHEAT 1990
- Waiting for cargo
- Waiting for cargo documents after completion of loading
- Waiting for charterers’ inspector
- Waiting time after loading and discharging
- War clauses
- Weather exceptions - "weather working day", "weather permitting"
- Whether time counts when vessel is forced to leave berth due to weather conditions - GENCON
- Whether charterers are entitled to load wheat when vessel is fixed for a cargo of HSS - SYNACOMEX
- WIBON - Vessel unable to enter berth because of fog - GENCON
- Work during excepted periods “even if used”
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Bills of lading advice
- Authority to sign bills of lading
- Bill of Lading forms
- Bills of lading
- Change of destination stated in bills of lading
- Clean bills of lading
- Clean on board Bills of Lading
- Deck cargo
- Delivery of cargo without presentation of original bills of lading clauses
- Description of cargo
- Electronic Bills of Lading
- Freight prepaid Bills of Lading
- Multimodal transport documents
- No delivery of cargo without original Bill of Lading
- No original bill of lading - no delivery of cargo
- Ocean bill of lading
- Releasing bills of lading on completion
- Sea-Waybills
- Signing bills of lading on master's behalf
- Signing bills of lading when intaken quantity disputed
- Straight Bills of Lading
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