The title of this paper requires some explanation. It is not intended to suggest that the two clauses to be considered are necessarily connected, but they do both exist to give extensive protection to owners and their underwriters in the event of a vessel’s getting into trouble. The safe port obligation is as likely to be found in a voyage charter as in a time charter and what follows applies equally to both types of agreement.1 The employment and indemnity clause is not merely confined to questions of safety but is intended to protect the owner from all consequences that may arise when the master complies with the time charterer’s orders as to how and where the vessel is to be employed. Such a clause is generally to be found only in time charterparties but that is not to say that there would be no scope for implying a wide right of indemnity in a voyage charterparty which gave charterers the right to nominate ports or load goods of their choice. It should be noted that any comments made on unsafe ports apply equally to unsafe berths, the doctrine being essentially the same in either case.2