London Arbitration 7/25

Charterparty - Amended NYPE 1993 form - Final hire accounts - Off-hire - Underperformance claim - Whether master's or weather routing company's evidence of weather to be preferred - Meaning of "up to BF4" and "in good faith" in performance warranty - Whether damage to ship's cranes caused by stevedores loading and discharging logs - Master abandoning bunkering when vessel double-banked, ropes parted and a seaman was injured - Whether vessel off-hire - Causation Procedure - LMAA Fast and Low Cost Arbitration (FALCA) Rules

The subject vessel was chartered on the NYPE form with additional clauses. Disputes arose over the final hire accounts and were submitted to arbitration in London under the LMAA Fast and Low Cost Arbitration (FALCA) Rules. The parties' legal representatives agreed on the appointment of a sole arbitrator.