1. Project Cargo shipments: tips from legal advisor
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Project Cargo shipments:
tips from legal advisor
Natalia Myroshnychenko, Interlegal

2. Pre-shipment
Cancellation of shipment

3. Owners
Charterers
Gencon/Booking Note

4. Grounds for cancellation
Charterers’ cancellation:
Non-readiness of cargo
Financial problems of Cargo Buyers
Owners’ cancellation:
Vessel’s delay for laycan
Impossibility to take another part cargo

5. We hope you understand charterer’s current situation and forgive us for causing trouble for this contract.
Charterers:

6. Notice of cancellation Cancelling Party
Grounds
Cancelling clause
Jurisdiction
Cancelling Party
Grounds for cancelling
Referral to cancelling clause if any
Jurisdiction if no clear statement in the fixture

7. Counterparty to Cancelling Party Immediate short claim
Statement of contract breach
Declaration of damages
Grounds for recovery
Jurisdiction
Statement of contract breach if any
Declaration of damages
Grounds for damages recovery
Jurisdiction/governing law if necessary
По горячим следам можно еще что-то получить как cancelling fee или возместить реальные убытки, потом взыскание занимает время и доп.деньги

8. Voyage
Late delivery

9. ?
Charterer
Shipowner

10. Charterers’ position Owners’ position
Owners’ failure to prosecute the voyage with due dispatch
Breach of delivery term
Owners’ position
Justifiable deviation

11. English case law justifiable deviation – voyage charter
to effect repairs to the ship (see Kish v. Taylor [1912])
to avoid capture or confiscation (see the Teutonia [1872])
to save life or property (see Monarch v. Stamp [1880])
to load full cargo (see Wallems v. Muller [1972])

12. Registered Owners
Time Charter
Time Charterer
Charterer
Voyage Charter

13. DELIVERY TERM CLAUSE/AGREEMENT Agreed port rotation Fixed transit time
‘First out’ basis
Penalties clause
Оговорка о штрафных санкциях дает возможность, в конченом итоге, завершить спор коммерчески, не предъявляя завышенные убытки

14. Post - voyage
Dispute

15. “Arbitration in London, English law”15

16. without any reference to the number of arbitrators
Arbitration in London
without any reference to the number of arbitrators
One arbitrator only
No express mechanism for the appointment of the arbitrator
if the parties are unable to agree on the appointment: in such cases the arbitrator must be appointed by the High Court,
which may take time and involve significant expense.
Beware, an arbitration clause that refers to “Arbitration in London, English law to apply”
is considered to be an agreement to refer any dispute to one arbitrator only. If the parties
cannot agree who that arbitrator will be then an application must be made to the English
High Court to appoint the arbitrator. This can take months and involve significant costs.

17. English Law, Arbitration in London, the reference to
three arbitrators in accordance with the LMAA Terms

18. Transport, Shipping & Trade
IMMTA
Transport, Shipping & Trade
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Odessa, 65014, Ukraine
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