Lloyd's Shipping & Trade Law

Documentation supporting a demurrage claim

In Quiana Navigation SA v Pacific Gulf Shipping (Singapore) Pte Ltd (The Caravos Liberty) [2019] EWHC 3171 (Comm), Cockerill J considered the issue of the duration of the owners’ right to withdraw the vessel for failure to pay hire. Charterers having withheld hire in part in a previous instalment arguably meant that all following payments were also short. Was the owners’ right to withdraw the vessel resurrected each time hire fell due?

This being the December issue, we thought we would consider some stocking fillers for the discerning maritime lawyer.