BIMCO member | EUR 1150 |
Non-member | EUR 1550 |
10% group discount is available for registering 3 or more participants from the same company.
The Charter Party Workshop Online is a series of 10 online sessions and combines a range of lecturers on voyage and time chartering with sessions on related day-to-day issues and troubleshooting.
Some of the topics you will cover.
Session |
Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
Session 1 (75 minutes) COMMON ISSUES |
Monday 12 April 2021 |
Overview of the inter-relationship between the contract of sale, the charter party, the bill of lading and the insurance certificate. |
Richard Williams |
Session 2 (90 minutes) VOYAGE CHARTERS |
Tuesday 13 April 2021 |
The shipowner’s duties: to provide a seaworthy ship, to properly and carefully care for the cargo, to proceed with reasonable dispatch, cancellation clauses, deviation, slow steaming clauses. |
Baris Soyer |
Session 3 (75 minutes) VOYAGE CHARTERS |
Wednesday |
The charterer’s duties: full and complete clean and sound cargoes, payments of, freight / deadfreight, port nominations, to provide all port restrictions (draft, air draft, etc) at the loading and discharging ports before fixing. | Baris Soyer |
Session 4 (90 minutes) VOYAGE CHARTERS |
Thursday 15 April 2021 |
Laytime and demurrage: NOR validity, types of laytime, when does laytime start to run? What suspends laytime? When does laytime stop? Demurrage, damages for detention, time bar clauses. |
Richard Williams |
Session 5 |
Friday |
Time charter duration and re-delivery: overlap/underlap, illegitimate last voyages express and implied tolerances, last voyage clauses, “without guarantee”. |
Baris Soyer |
Session 6 (75 minutes) TIME CHARTERS |
Monday 19 April 2021 |
Payment of hire: payment on time, allowed deductions, methods of payment, methods of payment of value of bunkers at delivery, remedies for non-payment of hire, withdrawal of ship from charterers’ service, anti- technicality clauses, suspension of service. |
Baris Soyer |
Session 7 |
Tuesday 20 April 2021 |
Off-hire clauses: general principles, the effect of different types of clauses, the importance of the wording, off-hire computation (per hatch/crane/gang). | Baris Soyer |
Session 8 (75 minutes) TIME CHARTERS |
Wednesday 21 April 2021 |
Employment orders: employment vs. navigation and safety, orders which a master must refuse, orders which a master has the right to refuse. | Richard Williams |
Session 9 (75 minutes) TIME CHARTERS |
Thursday 22 April 2021 |
Time charter cargo operations: Who is responsible for cargo operations? the effect of various clauses. Stevedore damage issues, effect of the Inter-Club Agreement. |
Richard Williams |
Session 10 (90 minutes) COMMON ISSUES |
Friday 23 April 2021 |
Safe ports: What is a safe port? When is a port to be safe? What is the extent of the charterers’ duty? Dangerous cargo: What is “dangerous”? When does notice need to be given? The basis of “liability” under the Hague and Hague- Visby Rules. Who is liable? |
Richard Williams |
09:00 Montréal/New York (EDT)
14:00 London (GMT)
15:00 Copenhagen (CET)
16:00 Athens (EET)
18:00 Dubai (GST)
22:00 Hong Kong/Singapore (HKT/SGT)
Participants will be given an option of taking a final assessment (one-hour open-book test) at the end of the course, and Certificate of Achievement will be issued with a grade (distinction, merit or pass). Those not taking the assessment will receive a Certificate of Attendance.
BIMCO issues electronic course files as an Adobe PDF file enabling you to make personal notes. All documentation and presentations will be in English. Course access details will be provided once the registration is completed.