Geden Operations Ltd v Dry Bulk Handy Holdings Inc (The “Bulk Uruguay”) – QBD (Comm Ct) (Popplewell J) [2014] EWHC 885 (Comm) – 28 March 2014

Charterparty – Anticipatory breach – Renunciation – Whether charterers entitled to give voyage orders to transit Gulf of Aden – Owners asserting that permission required – Whether owners in repudiatory breach

On 2 July 2010 the defendant disponent owners (owners) chartered the vessel Bulk Uruguay to the claimant charterers on an amended NYPE form for about 35 to about 37 months.