Shipping is an extremely complex subject and in each case much depends upon the inter-relationship and dominance of charter party clauses. Therefore, this paper should be considered mearly what it is set out to be, a plain and simple guide what can be difficult subject to understand. Nevertheless, occasions will inevitably arise where ship owners and charterers will not agree upon the interpretation of a particular clause. In the majority of such cases, the issues are amicably settled by negotiations particularly when they are minor in nature. Keeping this in view, this paper provides information on the details of ports, vessels and chartering mode as an integral source of information relating to port activities and contacting details for chartering a vessel for carriage of sea bound cargo. For the convenience of the reader paper is divided into two parts. The first part provides a reference to the individual subject matter relating to chartering such as different type of charter, type of vessels, freight, cargo, demurrage/dispatch, laydays, statement of facts, Bill of Lading, Arbitration etc. The second part provides information relating to port capacity, port infrastructure, port operations etc.
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