IMT SHIPPING AND CHARTERING GMBH v CHANSUNG SHIPPING CO LTD (THE “ZENOVIA”)

[2009] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 139

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Justice Tomlinson

Charterparty (Time) — Charterers giving notice of expected redelivery — Owners fixing vessel’s further employment based on expected redelivery date — Charterers subsequently giving second notice with later redelivery date — Whether charterers precluded by promissory estoppel from resiling from first notice — Whether charter contained implied term that charterers would not deliberately prevent original redelivery date being met.