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Author Trevor Harrison

Title Legal issues in bunkering : an introduction to the law
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Petrospot Limited, 2010

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Contents Cover -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- List of Tables and Figures -- Figure 1.�Distillate marine fuels -- Table courtesy of BSI (www.bsigroup.com) -- Figure 2.�Residual marine fuels from ISO 8217 2010 -- Table courtesy of BSI (www.bsigroup.com) -- Figure 3.�Some contractual bunkering chains -- Figure 4.�The complexity of contractual and tortious relationships in bunkering
This chart was devised by and is reproduced with the permission ofAlex Macinnes, a solicitor in the London office of Norwegian law firm Wikborg Rein (www.wr.no)Introduction -- The legal aspects of bunkering -- International business -- What are bunkers? -- Origin of the term -- Different types of bunker fuel -- Simple definition of bunkers -- When does oil become bunkers? -- Can oil stop being bunkers? -- Lubricants -- Some other definitions -- A little more about bunkers -- What goes into bunker fuel? -- Other fuel sources -- PART I -- DOING BUSINESS
Chapter 1 -- The basics of the law of contractLegal systems -- Contract -- Agreement -- Intention to create legal relations -- Consideration -- Summary -- Sequence -- Certainty -- Chapter 2 -- Particular features of bunker contracts -- Incorporating Terms and Conditions -- Course of dealing -- Priority of provisions -- No Terms & Conditions -- The battle of the forms -- Chapter 3 -- The short life of an unremarkable bunker stem -- Identifying the essential components of a contract -- Chapter 4 -- What sellers include in their Terms and Conditions
Definitions (1)Grades and quality (2) -- Quantities and measurements (3) -- Sampling (4) -- Delivery (5) -- Documentation (6) -- Requisition -- Bunker delivery note -- Short delivery complaint or protest -- Price (7) -- Payment (8) -- Credit -- Prohibition of set-off -- Timely payment and interest -- Interest rates -- Liens and other rights of the seller -- Claims (9) -- Quantity claims -- Quality claims -- The use of samples -- Delay or demurrage -- Indirect and consequential loss -- Limitation of liability -- Risk and title (10)
Termination (11)Indemnity (12) -- Force majeure (13) -- Safety and the environment (14) -- Dispute resolution (15) -- Law and jurisdiction -- Alternative dispute resolution -- The BIMCO Standard Dispute Resolution Clause -- Catch-all jurisdiction provisions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- The role of bunker brokers and other intermediaries -- Chapter 6 -- Charterparty relationships -- Time charters -- Bunkering clauses -- BIMCO Fuel Sulphur Content Clause -- Bunker Quality Control Clause for Time Chartering -- Raising standards -- Dispute resolution
Subject Ships -- Fuel -- Law and legislation
Law of the sea.
Law of the sea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781908663054
1908663057