Clearlake Shipping Pte Ltd v Privocean Shipping Ltd (The “Privocean”) – QBD (Comm Ct) (Cockerill J) [2018] EWHC 2460 (Comm) – 15 May 2018

Charterparty – NYPE form – Negligent stowage plan involving unnecessary strapping in cargo hold – Whether costs of strapping for owners’ or charterers’ account under clause 2 of NYPE form – Whether negligence in relation to stowage plan was negligence in management of ship or in management of cargo – US COGSA, section 4(2)

The vessel Privocean was chartered on the NYPE form (1946 edition) for a period of about five to eight months. The vessel was a Kamsarmax bulk carrier of roughly 80 tonnes deadweight. She had seven holds and hatches. She was instructed to load soya beans at New Orleans bound for China via the Panama Canal. In the event she loaded 60,131 mt.