London Arbitration 11/22

Charterparty - Deviation clause entitling owners to deviate for crew change with "deviationtime/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.