The Charter Party Workshop Masterclass Online is a series of 10 online sessions and combines a range of lecturers on voyage and time chartering with sessions on related day-to-day issues and troubleshooting. Each day will run for 2 x 75 minutes with a short break in between the sessions.
Discounts
10% group discount is available for registering 3 or more participants from the same company.
What will you learn?
Some of the topics you will learn:
- How does it all fit together? The legal relationships created between the commodity sale contract, the shipping contract and the insurance market.
- Voyage chartering: the duty of the carrier to provide a seaworthy ship to be able to carry the cargo.
- Voyage chartering: When time matters: proceeding with utmost dispatch and without deviation. But what rights and obligations does the carrier have?
Dates and topics of Charter Party Workshop Online
| Day | Session | Topic | Speaker |
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Monday 13 October 2025 |
Session 1 COMMON ISSUES |
Overview of the inter-relationship between the contract of sale, the charter party, the bill of lading and the insurance certificate. |
Baris Soyer |
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Session 2 VOYAGE CHARTERS |
The shipowner’s duties: to provide a seaworthy ship, to care for the cargo properly and carefully, to proceed with reasonable dispatch, cancellation clauses, deviation, and slow steaming clauses. |
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Tuesday 14 October 2025 |
Session 3 VOYAGE CHARTERS |
Laytime and demurrage: NOR validity, types of laytime, when does laytime start to run? What suspends laytime? When does laytime stop? Demurrage, damages for detention, time bar clauses. |
Joanna Meadows |
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Session 4 VOYAGE CHARTERS |
The charterer’s duties: full and complete clean and sound cargoes, payments of, freight/deadfreight, port nominations, to provide all port restrictions (draft, air draft, etc) at the loading and discharging ports before fixing. |
Baris Soyer | |
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Wednesday 15 October 2025 |
Session 5 TIME CHARTERS |
Employment orders: employment vs. navigation and safety, orders which a master must refuse, orders which a master has the right to refuse. |
Joanna Meadows |
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Session 6 TIME CHARTERS |
Time charter cargo operations: Who is responsible for cargo operations? the effect of various clauses. Stevedore damage issues, effect of the Inter-Club Agreement. |
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Thursday 16 October 2025 |
Session 7 TIME CHARTERS |
Time charter duration and re-delivery: overlap/underlap, illegitimate last voyages, express and implied tolerances, last voyage clauses, “without guarantee”. |
Baris Soyer |
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Session 8 TIME CHARTERS |
Payment of hire: payment on time, allowed deductions, methods of payment, methods of payment of value of bunkers at delivery, remedies for non-payment of hire, withdrawal of ship from charterers’ service, anti-technicality clauses, suspension of service. |
Baris Soyer |
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Friday 17 October 2025
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Session 9 TIME CHARTERS |
Off-hire clauses: general principles, the effect of different types of clauses, the importance of the wording, off-hire computation (per hatch/crane/gang). | Joanna Meadows |
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Session 10 COMMON ISSUES |
Dangerous cargo: What is “dangerous”? When does notice need to be given? The basis of “liability” under the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules. Who is liable? Safe ports: What is a safe port? When is a port to be safe? What is the extent of the charterers’ duty? |
Starting time (for all sessions)
12:00 UTC
14:00 CEST
See the time in your local time zone.
What do participants say about the course?
"The presentations and the recordings are so useful to return to and keep learning from each time I read/listen to them." (Charter Party Workshop participant, February 2021)
"Awesome supporting materials and good case discussions." (Charter Party Workshop participant, February 2021)
Course certification
Participants will be given an option of taking a final assessment (open-book test) at the end of the course, and Certificate of Achievement will be issued with a grade (distinction, merit or pass). Those not taking the assessment will receive a Certificate of Attendance.
Course materials
BIMCO issues electronic course files as an Adobe PDF file enabling you to make personal notes. All documentation and presentations will be in English. Course access details will be provided once the registration is completed.
