Carver on Charterparties, 3rd Edition | 2024*

Carver on Charterparties, 3rd Edition | 2024*

Carver on Charterparties, alongside Carver on Bills of Lading, builds on the foundation laid by the classic 1982 work Carver’s Carriage by Sea. The 3rd edition of Carver on Charterparties offers an in-depth thematic analysis of this essential area of shipping law.

• Explores the nature and key features of charterparties
• Examines the parties involved, the formation process, and how charterparties are interpreted as contracts
• Details the application of charterparties to vessels, cargo, and voyages
• Addresses issues relating to cargo claims
• Reviews the different types of charterparties, including demise, time, and voyage charters
• Discusses concepts such as laytime and demurrage
• Analyzes contract discharge through frustration or breach
• Covers damages and other available remedies

   

The third edition includes coverage of several significant cases that have arisen since the second edition, such as:

• Unicredit Bank AG v Euronav NV (The Sienna) [2023] EWCA Civ 471, which explores the relationship between charterparties and bills of lading
• Alize 1954 v Allianz Elementar Versicherungs AG (The CMA CGM Libra) [2021] UKSC 51, addressing seaworthiness, vessel passage planning, and the connection between seaworthiness and navigation
• Gravelor Shipping Ltd v GTLK Asia M5 Ltd [2023] EWHC 131 (Comm), concerning arrangements for the purchase of a ship under a demise charterparty
• SK Shipping PLC v Capital VLCC 3 Corp (The C Challenger) [2020] EWHC 3448 (Comm); [2022] EWCA Civ 231, dealing with fitness for service, shipowner’s consent to hire deductions, election and reservation of rights, speed and consumption warranties, and the Shelltime 4 maintenance clause
• Eastern Pacific Chartering Inc v Pola Maritime Ltd (The Divinegate) [2022] EWHC 2095 (Comm), focusing on the calculation of underperformance related to speed and consumption warranties
• Herculito Maritime Ltd v Gunvor International BC (The Polar) [2024] UKSC 2, examining whether insurance rights exclude normal recourse rights
• K Line Pte v Priminds Shipping (HK) Co Ltd (The Eternal Bliss) [2021] EWCA Civ 1712, considering whether damages can be recovered in addition to demurrage or deadfreight

   

Table of Contents of Carver on Charterparties, 3rd Edition:

1. Charterparties: Nature and Characteristics

2. The Charterparty as a Contract

3. The Vessel

4. The Voyage

5. Cargo Claims

6. Demise/Bareboat Charterparties

7. Time Charters

8. Voyage Charterparties

9. Laytime and Demurrage

10. Discharger of Contractual Obligations

11. Damages for Breach of Charterparty

12. The Measure of Damages for Particular Types of Breach

13. Other Remedies

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