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Advanced Charter Parties, Laytime and Demurrage


This 'actual case-based' program will benefit anyone familiar with the fundamentals of contracts and demurrage wanting to take a more comprehensive look at the key charter parties and clauses, actual case studies, rulings and awards, arbitration rules and legal perspectives of this ever-challenging area.

Advanced Charter Parties, Laytime and Demurrage

Course Topics

This two-day course covers the topics you need to better understand the more complex issues of charter parties, laytime and demurrage, such as: 


  •    Actual Arbitration Rulings:
        -  Demurrage

        -  Vessel Performance/Non-Performance

        -  Arrived Ship - NOR - Laydays

        -  Safe Berth, Safe Port

        -  Multiport Discharge

        -  Complex Cargoes

  •   Optimizing Vessel Utilization and Selection

  •   Mock Case Discussions

  •   Discussion – When The Contract Fails

  •   New MTSA - ISPS Clauses

  •   Advanced Loss Control Using
      Charter Parties and Clauses

  •    Sample Demurrage Calculation Exercises

  •    Intertanko’s Latest Positions on
       Key Charter Parties and Clauses

  •    Review of  "Parallel Contracts" -
       Purchase /  Sales Agreements       

  •    Key Clauses to Protect Your Interest
       When Special Cargoes are Carried

  •    New Dispute Settlement Options –
       Shortened Arbitration/Negotiation/Mediation

  •    Terms and Conditions of Terminals
        vs. Charter Parties and Relative Clauses

  •    Incident Investigation:  What is an Incident?
       Types of Incidents - Identify What, Why, How
       it Happened - How to Prevent it from
       happening again - Incident Reporting
       - Root Cause Analysis: Finding reasons for
       demurrage and ways to reduce it

  •    Detailed Discussion of Owner’s Items
        vs. Charterer’s Items and Agents
  •    Pitfalls of Ship Fixing by Telex

 


Program Objective:  Participants take an in-depth study of the industry key charter party clause interpretation, actual case studies, arbitration rulings and awards, and parallel contracts, i.e. purchase and sale agreements. This session will most benefit anyone already familiar with the fundamentals of contracts and demurrage.


Course Format

The sessions consist of a combination of lectures, audio visual presentation, problem solving discussions/calculations, hands-on use of equipment (where applicable), and daily question/answer periods.


Registration begins a half hour before the scheduled start of each session.  Sessions are from 0900-1630 daily; lunch is on your own.  

 

Materials

Participants receive original reference books, pertinent industry publications, papers and other handouts.  A course certificate is awarded to all of those successfully completing the program.

 

Who Should Attend

Manager, field/office staff, traders, brokers, owners, ship/terminal operators, charterers, schedulers, attorneys, claims analysts, accountants, government personnel,
and anyone working in the marine petroleum industry in any way will benefit from these programs.





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Bring Your Questions...They Will Be Answered!

Enercon's courses have been designed to be as practical as possible and bring these technical subjects into context for participants. This is done, in part, by allowing the attendees to discuss their specific operational problems as well as directly participate in the structured program.  If a specific question raised cannot be answered immediately, all attempts will be made to have an answer before the end of the program.  If this is not possible, the question will be researched and a response provided as soon as practical after the course. 


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ENERCON GROUP, INC.

ENERCON GROUP, INC.

1825 Ponce de Leon Blvd  Suite 542

Coral Gables, Florida 33134 USA

2025


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