This publication looks at voyage charterparty contracts and addresses complex legal and practical issues arising out of them and their relationship with bills of lading and international sale contracts. It offers insightful discussion on other distinctive features of voyage charterparties, such as deviation, laytime and demurrage, seaworthiness and cancellation clauses, and on the recent case law developments in jurisdiction and arbitration clauses in voyage charterparty contracts.

Author:  D Rhidian Thomas

ISBN: 13: 978-1-843118084

Published: Taylor & Francis (Informan Law by Routledge) 2009

Binding: Hardback

CONTENTS:

1. The Evolving Flexibility of Voyage Chaterparties Professor D. Rhidian Thomas
2. Jurisdiction and Arbitration Clauses Steven Gee QC
3. Legal Aspects of the Approach Voyage Richard Lord QC
4. The Loading Obligations of Voyage Charterers Dr Theodora Nikaki
5. The Wreck of the Hesperus Revisited: A Review of the Obligations of Seaworthiness in Contracts of Affreightment Charles G.C.H Baker
6. Dangerous Cargo and "Legally Dangerous" Cargo Robert Gay
7. Arrival, Readiness and the Commencement of Laytime Simon Rainey QC
8. The Running of Laytime and Demurrage when a Charterer does not have Sole Use of a Vessel Mark Hamsher
9. Laytime and Demurrage Clauses in Contracts of Sale- A Survey of the New York Society of Maritime Arbitrators' Awards (1978-2008) and English Case Law Professor Jason Chuah
10. Bills of Lading and Voyage Charters Professor Francis Reynolds QC
11. Charterparty Bills of Lading Cargo Interests' Liabilities to the Shipowner Simon Baughen
12. The Bill of Lading Contracts Under European National Laws (Civil Law Approaches to Explaining the Legal Approaches to Explaining the Legal Position of the Consignee under Bills of Lading) Professor Frank G.M Smeele
13. Comparative Observations on United States Law and Practice Relating to Voyage Charters LeRoy Lambert
14. The Impact of Deviation on Contracts of Affreightment Professor Richard Williams
15. Cancellation Clauses and Repudiatory Breach Professor Michael Furmstron
16. Frustration in Voyage Charters- Silted-up Backwater or Vital Navigation Resource? Professor Andrew Tettenborn