London Arbitration 13/23

Time charterparty - Off-hire - Death of master - Tests for Covid-19 - Whether transit of Panama Canal delayed by actions of health authority - Whether authority's requirements were extraordinary - Whether negative Covid-19 test certificates should have been maintained on board with other certificates - Whether detention for tests was "any other cause preventing the full working of the vessel" - LMAA Small Claims Procedure - Costs

The subject vessel was chartered on the terms of a charterparty evidenced by a fixture recap email and based on an amended NYPE form to perform one laden leg carrying fertiliser from Europe to the west coast of South America.