Allocation of costs and responsibilities between charterers and owners:

• Responsibilities of owners and charterers
• Responsibilities for cargo operations
• Shared expenses
• General Average
• Cargo claims
• NYPE Inter-Club Agreement
• Liens
• Damage to the ship

Seaworthiness obligations:

• Seaworthiness and unseaworthiness
• Cargo worthiness
• Hague / Hague-Visby Rules
• Employment clause
• Implied indemnities

Bills of Lading under time charter:

• Charterers indemnity
• Owner’s bill or charterer’s bill
• Extent of “as presented”
• Owners direct liability to cargo owners