London Arbitration 11/22

Charterparty – Deviation clause entitling owners to deviate for crew change with “deviation time/bunker/costs” to be for owners’ account – Vessel proceeding to intermediate port for crew change – Vessel subsequently delayed by bad weather – Whether owners liable for additional time bunkers and costs resulting from bad weather delay – Arbitration – Practice – Costs – Whether costs of P&I Club’s in-house lawyer recoverable

The subject vessel was chartered under a time trip charterparty, comprising a fixture recap and an amended NYPE 93 form with riders. The charter was for a trip from a sole load port in the Sea of Japan to a discharge port in the South China Sea, carrying a cargo of steel billets and with an estimated duration of 25 to 30 days.