London Arbitration 14/21

Voyage Charterers requested the vessel to wait off the discharge port for some 6 days (after NOR tendered).  Owners claimed damages for detention and bunker cost – not demurrage – arguing that the request took matters outside the scope of the C/P. The Tribunal held that the request was not “manifestly outside” the contract, laytime ran and Charterers were entitled to all of it.  As neither party had put forward a demurrage basis the (SCP) Tribunal made its own assessment.