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Newsletters with the category - Pumping Clauses and Disputes

Issue 3 - February 1997

THE PETR SCHMIDT [1996]

In our newsletter No. 2 we referred to an arbitration over a charter party cl Read more..

Issue 4 - May 1997

C/P PUMPING CLAUSES

We will have a strong panel at the demurrage conference to debate the question of the fair interpretation of pumping clauses. We propose to start from the basi Read more..

Issue 8 - September 1998

PUMPING DISPUTES

Pumping disputes are, without doubt, the greatest cause of delay to the settlement of tanker charter party and CIF/CRF contract demurrage claims. The usual argume Read more..

Issue 9 - January 1999

PUMPING DISPUTES

The Tanker Pumping Performance Working Group, referred to in our last newsletter wil Read more..

Issue 10 - May 1999

PUMPING DISPUTES

The Tanker Pumping Performance Working Group has completed its research into the technical aspects of pumping, charter party clause interpretation and documentati Read more..

Issue 11 - September 1999

PUMPING DISPUTES

The Tanker Pumping Performance Working Group's recommendations were presented at our 4th International Conference on Tanker Demurrage at the end of May by Mark As Read more..

Issue 12 - January 2000

PUMPING DISPUTES

The Tanker Pumping Performance Working Group met in December to review progress following the presentation of their recommendations at the 4th International Confe Read more..

Issue 13 - May 2000

PUMPING DISPUTES

We understand that Intertanko's Documentary Committee has endorsed the "pumping performance formula" and that they will now recommend it to their members as a fai Read more..

Issue 14 - September 2000

PUMPING DISPUTES

The next meeting of the Working Group on the Fair Interpretation of Pumping Clauses is scheduled for October. One item on the agenda will be the question of wheth Read more..

Issue 15 - January 2001

PUMPING DISPUTES

The Working Group on the Fair Interpretation of Pumping Clauses has been strengthened by the addition of several new members and now includes representatives from Read more..

Issue 17 - September 2001

PUMPING DISPUTES

Mark Aspinall of Shaw & Croft, representing The Working Group on the Fair Interpretation of Pumping Clauses, presented an entirely new pumping clause for tank Read more..

Issue 19 - May 2002

NOTICES OF READINESS

The Industry Working Group on the validity of Notices of Readiness held its first meeting in March. Both owners’ and charterers’ representatives a Read more..

Issue 20 - September 2002

NOTICES OF READINESS

The Court of Appeal has recently issued its judgment in the case of Flacker Shipping Ltd v. Glencore Grain Ltd. The “Happy Day” and has allowed th Read more..

Issue 22 - May 2003

RESPONSIBILITY FOR OBTAINING FREE PRATIQUE

We have recently been consulted by ship owners about an additional chartering clause that states not only that until free pratique has b Read more..

Issue 25 - May 2004

CAN LAYTIME RUN PRIOR TO OPENING OF A LETTER OF CREDIT?

We asked this question in News Update No. 22 when the High Court heard the case of Kronos Worldwide Ltd. v. Sempra Read more..

Issue 27 - January 2005

EARLY LOADING CLAUSES

A recent London arbitration, LMLN 27/04, highlighted how difficult it can be to write additional charter party clauses that will cover every Read more..

Issue 33 - January 2007

CHARTER PARTY PUMPING WARRANTIES

Eight years’ ago the Oil Industry Working Group on the Fair Interpretation of Pumping Clauses presented its conclusions at Asdem’s 4th Read more..

Issue 35 - September 2007

LAYCAN OR DELIVERY PERIOD IN SALES CONTRACTS?

Chevron failed to overturn the High Court judgment in ERG Raffinerie Mediterranee SpA v. Chevron USA Inc. (The “Luxmar& Read more..

Issue 52 - May 2013

THE "MERCINI LADY"

There have been three court hearing for this case, two of which we have previously reported. As these are somewhat confusing, here is a summary which may be hel Read more..

Issue 60 - January 2016

INTERPRETATION OF PUMPING CLAUSES

Although the London Arbitration 13/15 reported by the Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter was dealt with by a single arbitrator under the LMAA Small Read more..

Issue 61 - May 2016

BPVOY5

BP Shipping's long-awaited new charter party, BPVOY5, has now been published. We believe the time taken to ensure that the charter party is as clear and up-to-date as possi Read more..

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