Post by Marcenta Chartering & Shipping Ltd

The Illusion of 'Good Weather' in Speed & Consumption Claims: The $75,000 Logbook Chess ⚓📊☀️ When you time-charter a vessel and the Owner guarantees a speed of 13 knots on 24 tonnes of VLSFO, you think you have an ironclad financial baseline. But if you treat the phrase "Good Weather Only" as a casual meteorological term during a performance audit, English Maritime Law has a very expensive, slightly sarcastic wake-up call for your desk. The Technical Blindspot: Under English law, a vessel’s under-performance cannot be calculated over the whole voyage. It is judged only during specific "Good Weather Windows." ⏱️🌬️ To qualify as "Good Weather," a 24-hour period must simultaneously hit every single parameter in your Charter Party: • Wind: Beaufort Scale 4 or lower. • Sea: Douglas Sea State 3 or lower. • The Catch: Absolutely no adverse swell. Even in a dead calm wind, a rolling swell from a distant ocean storm disqualifies the day from the calculation. The Sarcastic Chess: If a ship sails for 20 days but only encounters 2 days of "legally perfect" weather, her performance over those 48 hours is extrapolated to decide the entire financial claim. Worse for the Charterer? The Owner will use the Master's handwritten Deck Logbooks to claim bad weather existed, while your Weather Routing Report says it was clear. In a London arbitration room, unless you can prove fraud, the Master's logbook is incredibly difficult to dethrone. 🤫📝 The Marcenta Fix: At Marcenta, Where cargo meets the right vessel means providing contract structures that outsmart the loopholes. We audit your Speed & Consumption riders before you fix—ensuring that independent, satellite-backed weather routing data is legally binding over the deck logs, keeping your T/C commercial margins completely secure. Calling the kiralama (chartering) managers, post-fixture operators, and performance analysts at global leaders and trading giants like Clarksons Kuehne+Nagel Euroshipping, ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel, POSCO HOLDINGS, and Marubeni Corporation — or whom it may concern from others across the time-charter and P&I desks: How often do handwritten deck logs turn your bulletproof under-performance claims into a complete legal dead-end? Let’s talk strategy below! 👇 Read the full technical analysis: https://lnkd.in/dBxzNf7k See our active cargo & vessel openings: https://lnkd.in/eVfNx2JY #ShipWithMarcenta #MaritimeLaw #SpeedAndConsumption #GoodWeatherClause #TimeCharter #Shipbroking #DryBulk #PerformanceDisputes #LondonShipping #RiskManagement #CommodityLogistics #SteelTrading BIMCO LMAA London NorthStandard UK P&I Club Steamship Mutual Skuld Berge Bulk Oldendorff Carriers GmbH & Co. KG