Time Charters
8
State of the Ship on Delivery
State of the Ship on Delivery
| “21. | … Vessel on her delivery to be |
| 22. | ready to receive cargo with clean-swept holds and tight, staunch, strong and in every way fitted for the service, having water ballast, winches and |
| 23. | donkey boiler with sufficient steam power, or if not equipped with donkey boiler, then other power sufficient to run all the winches at one and the same |
| 24. | time (and with full complement of officers, seamen, engineers and firemen for a vessel of her tonnage), … ” |
General
8.1
A time charter almost always includes terms requiring the ship to be in a particular condition at the time of delivery. In the New York Produce form, Lines 21 to 24 of the preamble contain a series of requirements as to the condition and quality of the ship’s cargo spaces, hull, machinery and crew. In the Baltime form, Clause 1 stipulates more shortly that the ship is to be delivered “in every way fitted for ordinary cargo service”. The NYPE 93 form adopts the words of the Baltime form: see Lines 34 and 35.