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A voyage charter specifies a period, known as laytime, for loading and unloading the cargo. If laytime is exceeded, the charterer must pay demurrage. If laytime is saved, the charter party may require the shipowner to pay despatch to the charterer. [1] A time charter is the hiring of a vessel for a specific period of time.
Laytime can commence under a voyage charterparty requiring service of a notice of readiness when no valid notice of readiness has been served in circumstances where (a) a notice of readiness valid in form is served upon the charterers or receivers as required under the charterparty prior to the arrival of the vessel; (b) the vessel thereafter ...
Officially, demurrage is a form of liquidated damages for breaching the laytime as it is stated in the governing contract (the charter party). The demurrage sometimes causes a loss to the seller as it increases cost of the total freight. [3] The demurrage fee is often a daily amount agreed between charterers and ship owners.
If the seller is not able to organize unloading, they should consider shipping under DAP terms instead. All charges after unloading (for example, import duty, taxes, customs and on-carriage) are to be borne by buyer. However, any delay or demurrage charges at the terminal will generally be for the seller's account.
Demurrage is the cost associated with owning or holding currency over a given period. It is sometimes referred to as a carrying cost of money. It is sometimes referred to as a carrying cost of money. For commodity money such as gold, demurrage is the cost of storing and securing the gold.
A suit will lie against the seller if the seller has insufficient title, [7] or the goods are not of satisfactory quality, [8] or do not comply with sample [9] or description. [10] A suit will lie against the shipper if the goods are damaged through insufficient packing, [11] [12] or if any loss is suffered through insufficient labelling. [13 ...
Affreightment (from freight) is a legal term relating to shipping.. A contract of affreightment is a contract between a ship-owner and a charterer, in which the ship-owner agrees to carry goods for the charterer in the ship, or to give the charterer the use of the whole or part of the ship's cargo-carrying space for the carriage of goods on a specified voyage or voyages or for a specified time.
The Hague–Visby Rules is a set of international rules for the international carriage of goods by sea.They are a slightly updated version of the original Hague Rules which were drafted in Brussels in 1924.