Introduction to types of shipping contracts:

• Voyage Charter overview and different forms
• Time Charter overview and different forms
• Bareboat Charter
• Contract of Affreightment (CoA)

Time Charter

Introduction to time chartering and different forms.

The duties of the owners to provide a seaworthy ship on delivery and throughout the charter period:

• Seaworthiness
• Cargo worthiness
• The effect of the Hague / Hague-Visby Rules
• The employment clause
• Implied indemnities
• Trip time charter issues
• Overlap / Underlap / Last voyage clause
• Illegitimate last voyage orders
• Early redelivery consequences and obligations of the owners

Off-hire clauses

• General principles
• Exceptions to off-hire
• Preventing the full working of the ship
• Reduction in speed
• The effect of specific provisions
• Bunkers and other obligations during off-hire periods