COSMOS BULK TRANSPORT INC. v. CHINA NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION (THE "APOLLONIUS")

[1978] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 53

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Mocatta

Charter-party (Time) - Speed warranty - Slow steaming by vessel due to bottom fouling - Whether speed warranty applicable at date of charter and/or at date of delivery - Whether charterers entitled to withhold hire for loss of time due to slow steaming and failure to prosecute voyage with utmost dispatch - Baltime 1939.