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overview
Key Learning Outcomes
- Introduction to Laytime
- Introduction to Demurrage and Despatch
- Shipowners’ and charterers’ duties
- When does the clock start to tick?
- Safe ports and berths and anchorages
- Arrived ship, Notices of Readiness
- Statements of Facts
- Notes of Protest
- Charter party clauses
- Time bars
Who Will Benefit
Participants will be expected to have little or no prior knowledge of Laytime
- Ship owners and managers
- Charterers including Importers, Exporters and Traders
- Shipbrokers
- Port and ship agents
- P&I personnel
- Logistics and shipping professionals
- Legal advisers, solicitors and barristers
- Government bodies and representatives
What Past Delegates Liked About This Course
“The speaker has the shipping/commercial background, the topic is relevant to my daily work”
~ GM, IMC Shipping Co Pte Ltd
“There is a lot of discussion among the participants. The trainer displays a lot of knowledge and is generous to share”
~ Planner, Sumitomo Chemical Asia Pte Ltd
“This is a very hands-on, practical programme for me”
~ Post Fixture Manager, IMC Shipping Co Pte Ltd
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MCF Training Grant
MCF Training Grant is available for eligible course participants. Please refer to www.mpa.gov.sg/mcf for information on the MCF Training Grant.
Agenda
REVIEW OF LAYTIME AND DEMURRAGE
- Allocation of risk for delay between owners and charterers
- Definition of laytime, demurrage and despatch
- Types of Laytime
- Fixed time
- Tons per hour/per hatch
- Custom of port
START OF LAYTIME
- Arrived ship
- When does it start?
- What suspends time?
- When does time stop running?
- Notice of Readiness (NOR)
START AND STOPPAGE OF DEMURRAGE
- Start of demurrage
- Suspension of demurrage
CALCULATION OF DRY CARGO LAYTIME
- Types of dry cargo laytime – reversible, averageable, non-reversible
- Working days and running hours
- Laydays, early loading clauses, virtual NOR and late arrivals
- Explanation of terms
- » WWD / WDWP
- » WIBON / WIPON / WIFPON / WECCON
- » SHINC / FHINC / SHEX / FHEX
- Breakdown of different types of machinery
- Laytime per working / workable hatches
- Damages for detention
- Notice periods, turn times
- Interruptions and exceptions
- Pro rated time for part cargoes
- Shifting and multi berth discharges
- Other issues affecting the calculation of laytime
LAYTIME AND DEMURRAGE CLAUSES
- Different charterparties and NOR clauses
- Weather clauses
- Practical considerations
- » Letters of protest
- » Dry cargoes focused clauses
DEMURRAGE CLAIMS MANAGEMENT
- Main stages
- Key clauses in contracts which can affect claims
- Securing a settlement
- Enforcement options
CASE STUDY:
A recent laytime and demurrage case will be presented and analysed to give participants a better appreciation of common problems and practical issues arising with Dry cargoes. Specific clauses will be reviewed.
Participants are encouraged to provide alternative solutions to the cases presented and are requested, and requested to send their claim stories latest 1 week prior to this Workshop for general practical and legal discussions (anonymous if preferred).
THE COMMERCIAL CONTRACT TERMS AND CHARTERPARTY CLAUSES
- Relationship between the two – with examples
- Traders’ General Terms and Conditions
PROFITABLE USE OF LAYTIME AND DEMURRAGE IN NON-TRADITIONAL WAYS
- Delaying loading
- During the course of the voyage
- Delaying discharge
HANDLING LAYTIME & DEMURRAGE CLAIMS AND DISPUTES
- Time bars
- Which documents are essential
- Dispute resolution methods – and reasons for choice of arbitration or mediation or litigation
when & where
14 - 17 Jun 2022
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07 - 10 Nov 2022
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Sushil Kunwar
Training Consultant
+65 6989 6614
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