London Arbitration 1/25

Charterparty - Amended Gencon form - Failure to provide cargo - Demurrage - Freight - Damages for hire under head charterparty - Preliminary issues - Whether sub-charterers should be joined as a necessary and proper party - Whether sub-charter collateral to the charterparty in the reference and to be taken into consideration

Disputes were submitted to a sole arbitrator under a voyage charterparty evidenced by a fixture recap email and based on a pro-forma Gencon 1994 form. The charterparty was made with the disponent owners of the subject vessel for the carriage of a cargo of 50,000 mt, 10 per cent more or less in the owners' option, of bulk petcoke from a Gulf port to India.