Shipping Webinar - Owners' Obligations and Charterers' Rights

On Wednesday 3 March Tom Hodges and Pamela Dunning presented the second webinar in our Shipping and International Trade series. During the event our experts looked at the topic of ‘Owners, obligations and Charterers’ rights.’ The webinar closed with a live Q&A where our panelists answered your submitted questions. Disclaimer: Please note that content and advice provided is correct as of date of recording. Here are the video timestamps to guide you through our video: 0:10 The Birketts Shipping and International Trade Team 1:55 Recap: last webinar 2:30 The time charter in context 3:07 Introduction 3:53 Issues covered 4:31 Charterers' basic rights 6:20 Description of the vessel in the time charter 8:30 Condition or intermediate term? 16:02 Seaworthiness 18:22 Seaworthiness - definition 19:20 Seaworthiness - what is required? 20:25 Express seaworthiness provisions 23:19 Charterers' rights re: breach of delivery obligations 29:34 Owners' obligation to maintain the vessel 31:50 Clause Paramount 33:19 Hague Rules 34:12 The Saxon Star 1 Lloyd's Rep.73 36:36 Clauses Paramount and time charters 38:39 Employment clause 39:39 Exceptions to Owners' obligation to follow orders 44:28 Issues covered 45:15 Next seminar 45:40 Questions To view the first webinar in our series where our experts Alex Davey and Sarah Holsgrave provided an ‘Introduction to time charters and English law’, please visit https://bit.ly/2PoCy2L. Meet our experts: Tom Hodges: https://www.birketts.co.uk/our-lawyers/ipswich/tom-hodges Pamela Dunning: https://www.birketts.co.uk/our-lawyers/ipswich/pamela-dunning Alex Davey: https://www.birketts.co.uk/our-lawyer... Sarah Holsgove: https://www.birketts.co.uk/our-lawyer... Sign up to future webinars: https://www.birketts.co.uk/events To ensure that you are invited to future webinars and receive our newsletters please opt in to our mailing lists and select the appropriate areas of interest. https://www.birketts.co.uk/register