Agenda

MODULE 1

FIXING THE CHARTER (TV)

• When is a binding contract made and in what terms?
• Negotiations between brokers
• The legal effect of “subjects”
• The difference between qualifying the intention to be bound from qualifying the obligation to perform

SAFE PORTS, SAFE BERTHS (TV)

• The elements of the legal definitio of safety
• The nature of the obligation: absolute warranty or due diligence?
• The consequences of unsafety

FREEZING INJUNCTION COMPARED WITH SHIP ARREST

• The main differences
• What to use when
• Limitations and advantages of each

CASE STUDY SESSION 1:
CASE STUDY ON SAFE PORT AND ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES

MODULE 2

FORCE MAJEURE, WAR AND TERRORISM (TV)

• War risk clauses
• Force majeure clauses
• ISPS Code clauses
• The effect of not providing for changed circumstances

DELIVERY: BILLS OF LADING, LETTERS OF INDEMNITY, CHARTERPARTY INDEMNITY CLAUSES (TV)

• The consequences of delivering without presentation of original bills
• of lading
• Methods of protection against those consequences
• The risks faced, despite the methods of protection
• Allocation of those risks

CASE STUDY SESSION 2:
CASE STUDIES ON PIRACY AND DELIVERY WITHOUT ORIGINAL BILLS OF LADING

MODULE 3

CONDITION AND DESCRIPTION OFTHE VESSEL (T)

• Vetting clauses, inspections, SIRE

DURATION OF THE CHARTER, DELIVERY AND REDELIVERY (T)

• Overlap/underlap and the concept of the legitimate last voyage
• Damages for late redelivery
• Extending beyond the voyage beyond the final terminal date
• Adding off-hire periods to the period of the charter

COVID-19 IMPACTS ON EXISTING CHARTER CONTRACTS

• Force majeure / contract frustration
• Charterers’ rights, owners’ rights
• Particular issues with Time/Voyage charters
  • Vessel off-hire, quarantine
  • Delayed free pratique, WIFPON
  • Ship sanitation certificate (SSC)
• SIRE/CDI Inspection cancellation & liability
• Compliance with time bar provision
• Quarantine provision
• General Exceptions/Force Majeure Provisions Comparison
• Laytime & demurrage provision
• Covid-19 Vetting Inspection Clauses

COVID-19 VOYAGE CHARTERS (INTERTANKO ‘CORONAVIRUS’ CLAUSE) VS TIME CHARTERPARTIES  

• Safe port, safe berth
• Load & discharges
• free pratique
• Demurrage, loss, damages & other expenses
• inspections and certification
• crew wellbeing & crew change
• Bills of Lading

TANKER FREIGHT RATES UPDATES

FLOATING STORAGE – PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

• Contractual issues with voyage and time charterparties
  • “Waiting for charterers’ order” & demurrage
• Precautionary measures and P&I coverage
  • Vessel surveys
  • Cargo quantities, loading/discharging
  • Cargo degradation, loss
• Storage clauses
  • Intertanko, BIMCO clauses
  • Hull fouling
  • Bunkering
  • Charterers’ indemnity for loss, damage & delays
  • Bill of lading
  • Contract for carriage

CASE STUDY SESSION 3:
CASE STUDY ON CONDITION OF THE VESSEL UNDER TIME CHARTER

MODULE 4

HIRE AND OFF-HIRE (T)

• When are deductions from hire permitted?
• Withdrawal for non-payment of hire and the effect of “antitechnicality”
• Clauses
• Different types of off-hire clauses:
• Period clauses v. net loss of time clauses

CASE STUDY SESSION 4:

CASE STUDY ON WITHDRAWAL FOR NON PAYMENT OF HIRE AND ANTI-TECHNICALITY CLAUSES

MODULE 5

LAYTIME AND DEMURRAGE (V)

• When can a ship give effective notice of readiness (NOR)?
• Cancelling for late arrival: the lay/can period
• Exceptions to the running of laytime and demurrage
• Is it true that “once on demurrage, always on demurrage”?

CASE STUDY SESSION 5:
CASE STUDIES ON LAYTIME AND DEMURRAGE