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This book offers an updated examination of the intricacies of chartering dry cargo and tanker vessels all presented in a straightforward and readable format. Acknowledgements, Preface, Shipping and Chartering, Maritime Cargo, Maritime Transport Geography, Major World Seaports, Types of Ships, Dry Cargo Operations, Dry Bulk Seaborne Commodity Trades, Tanker Operations, Tanker Seaborne Commodity Trades, General Cargo and the Container Trades, Charter Parties and Bills of Landing and Ship Broking, Voyage Chartering, Time Chartering, Contacts of Affreightment, Bareboat (Demise) Chartering, Charter Party Forms, The Bill of Landing, Charter Party Terms Incorporated in the Bill of Lading, Interclub Agreement, Ship Broking, Commissions and Brokerages, The Chartering Process, Initiating the Chartering Process, Orders, A Voyage Charter Order, Time Charter Orders, Bareboat Charter Order, Contract of Affreightment Order, Positions, Chartering Process Negotiations, Offers and Counteroffers, Firm Offers, Content of a Firm Offer for a Voyage Charter, Firm Offer for a Contract of Affreightment, Freight Market Reporting, Dry Cargo Chartering Contracts, Time and Bareboat Charter Parties, Voyage Charter Parties and Contracts of Affreightment, Charter Party Terms, Time Charters, Clauses in a Time Charter Party, The Main Features of a Time Charter Party, Voyage Charters, Clauses in a Voyage Charter Party, Shipowner's and Charterer's Obligations in a Voyage Charter Party, The Main Features of a Voyage Charter Party, Freight and Fire, Freight, Risk of Loss, Calculating Freight, The Physical Payment of Freight, Hire, Dry Cargo Laytime, Tanker Chartering, Tanker Chartering Contracts, Tanker Laytime, Dry Bulk Voyage Estimating, Tanker Voyage Estimating, Managing Chartering Performance, Glossary of Chartering Terms and Abbreviations. |