The Evolving Law Ad Practice Of Voyage Charterparties

This new book in the Maritime and Transport Law Library focuses upon the complex issues arrising out of voyage charterparty contracts, bills of lading and international sale contracts.

Key topics covered in the book include:

1. The evolving nature of voyage charterparties
2. Jurisdiction and choice of law clauses
3. Legal issues relating to the preliminary voyage
4. Duties of owners with particular reference to seaworthiness
5. The cargo obligations of voyage charterers
6. The concept of legally dangerous cargo
7. Laytime and demurrage periods and interruptions to each
8. Commencement of laytime and notice of readiness
9. Laytime and demurrage clauses in interntional sales contracts
10. Bills of lading issued under voyage charters
11. Bills of lading under European national laws
12. Comparative developments in US law
13. Deviation
14. Cancellation clauses and repudiatory breach
15. Frustration of voyage charters

Chapter 1. The Evolving Flexibility of Voyage Chaterparties Professor D. Rhidian Thomas
Chapter 2. Jurisdiction and Arbitration Clauses Steven Gee QC
Chapter 3. Legal Aspects of the Approach Voyage Richard Lord QC
Chapter 4. The Loading Obligations of Voyage Charterers Dr Theodora Nikaki
Chapter 5. The Wreck of the Hesperus Revisited: A Review of the Obligations of Seaworthiness in Contracts of Affreightment Charles G.C.H Baker
Chapter 6. Dangerous Cargo and "Legally Dangerous" Cargo Robert Gay
Chapter 7. Arrival, Readiness and the Commencement of Laytime Simon Rainey QC
Chapter 8. The Running of Laytime and Demurrage when a Charterer does not have Sole Use of a Vessel Mark Hamsher
Chapter 9. Laytime and Demurrage Clauses in Contracts of Sale- A Survey of the New York Society of Maritime Arbitrators' Awards (1978-2008) and English Case Law Professor Jason Chuah
Chapter 10. Bills of Lading and Voyage Charters Professor Francis Reynolds QC
Chapter 11. Charterparty Bills of Lading Cargo Interests' Liabilities to the Shipowner Simon Baughen
Chapter 12. The Bill of Lading Contracts Under European National Laws (Civil Law Approaches to Explaining the Legal Approaches to Explaining the Legal Position of the Consignee under Bills of Lading) Professor Frank G.M Smeele
Chapter 13. Comparative Observations on United States Law and Practice Relating to Voyage Charters LeRoy Lambert
Chapter 14. The Impact of Deviation on Contracts of Affreightment Professor Richard Williams
Chapter 15. Cancellation Clauses and Repudiatory Breach Professor Michael Furmstron
Chapter 16. Frustration in Voyage Charters- Silted-up Backwater or Vital Navigation Resource? Professor Andrew Tettenborn