Voyage Charters
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Chapter 15
Laytime
| 6. Laytime | 79 |
| *(a) Separate laytime for loading and discharging | 80 |
| The cargo shall be loaded within the number of running hours as | 81 |
| indicated in Box 16, weather permitting, Sundays and holidays | 82 |
| excepted, unless used, in which event time actually used shall count. | 83 |
| The cargo shall be discharged within the number of running hours | 84 |
| as indicated in Box 16, weather permitting, Sundays and holidays | 85 |
| excepted, unless used, in which event time actually used shall count. | 86 |
| *(b) Total laytime for loading and discharging | 87 |
| The cargo shall be loaded and discharged within the number of total | 88 |
| running hours as indicated in Box 16, weather permitting, Sundays and | 89 |
| holidays excepted, unless used, in which event time actually used | 90 |
| shall count. | 91 |
| (c) Commencement of laytime (loading and discharging) | 92 |
| Laytime for loading and discharging shall commence at 1 p.m. if | 93 |
| notice of readiness is given before noon and at 6 a.m. next working | 94 |
| day if notice given during office hours after noon. Notice at loading | 95 |
| port to be given to the Shippers named in Box 17. | 96 |
| Time actually used before commencement of laytime shall count. | 97 |
| Time lost in waiting for berth to count as loading or discharging | 98 |
| time as the case may be. | 99 |
| * Indicate alternative (a) or (b) as agreed, in Box 16. |
15.1 The topic of laytime and demurrage is so large that it merits a separate book on its own, and the Lloyd’s Shipping Law Library contains a specialist work on the subject.1 In the light of that work, and because the obligation of the charterer to provide cargo is fully dealt with in Chapter 7, it is not the intention of the present chapter to deal extensively with the numerous decisions on the wide variety of terms used in charterparties in connection with laytime and demurrage, but to simply deal with the general issues of law on the topic and with the specific provisions of the Gencon form.