Maintop Shipping Co Ltd v Bulkindo Lines Pte Ltd -(The "Marinicki") - QBD (Admlty Ct)(Belinda Bucknall QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the QBD) - 29 July 2003

Charterparty - Safe port warranty - Charterers ordering vessel to Jakarta - Vessel sustaining serious bottom damage - Whether damage caused by underwater obstruction in dredged channel constituting designated route to Jakarta or whether caused by vessel running over own anchor prior to entry into port of Jakarta - Whether charterers in breach of safe port warranty

On 24 December 1999 the claimant owners chartered their vessel Marinicki to the defendant charterers on an amended NYPE form for "one Timecharter trip via safe port(s) ... intention Bulk Wheat from Vancouver to Indonesia". The charter provided inter alia: