TOTAL TRANSPORT CORPORATION v. ARCADIA PETROLEUM LTD. (THE “EURUS”)

[1996] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 408

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Rix

Charter-party (Voyage) - Voyage instruction clause - Indemnity - Charterers instructed master to delay tender of notice of readiness - Master failed to comply with instruction - Whether charterers entitled to be indemnified - Whether charterers’ instruction in accordance with custom of trade - Whether master’s failure proximate cause of loss - Antedating of bills of lading - Whether loss foreseeable.