03/04/2025
Welcome to this edition of The Wire on the topic of time-barred claims.
Top 5 tips for shipbrokers to effectively manage demurrage claims.
Following the conclusion of two voyages, the owners sent two claims (heating and demurrage) to the shipbrokers within the contractual time bar, with instructions for the broker to send them to the charterers.
Members were shipbrokers between owners and charterers. Owners sent their demurrage claim to the shipbrokers to pass to the charterers.
A shipbroker received a demurrage claim of US$80,000 by email to their fixture email address, “chartering@shipbroker.com”.
A shipbroker received a claim from owners for ice dues and winter surcharge on towage at a Baltic port to be passed on to the charterers.
A shipbroker fixed a ship for an initial period of three months with subsequent optional periods of three months.