Insights

Many charterparties, particularly time charters intended for general trading purposes, include express provisions in which the charterers warrant the safety of the ports and berths to which they will order the ship. In practice it can prove difficult to establish a breach of such warranties. 

Is Japan ever going to be an arbitration friendly jurisdiction for foreign parties? 

Even before the collapse in market rates it has been a long running debate. How many unpaid instalments of hire amount to a repudiatory breach? 

The English High Court has recently ruled that a where a charterparty sets out the ship’s hull& machinery value an owner may be required to repair up to that full amount irrespective ofwhether the ship could be said to be a CTL.