• Provides a very accessible, in-depth background to the law and economics of international ship broking and the chartering of vessels
• Explains the principles and practical application
• Completely updated and modernized to reflect the new chartering practices, including references to new documents standard documents such as GENTIME and GENCOA
• Looks at support technical tools, methods to study the market and carry out negotiations, while offering excellent reviews
• Analysis of the various freight markets, communications and marketing
• Discussion of sales contracts and bills of lading, chartering and freight calculations and various chartering routines
• Treatment of standard charter parties, some of the common considerations in choosing appropriate charter party and suitable clauses and legal principles and problems caused by time and charter parties
• Overview of chartering, from a practical point of view economic, administrative and legal
• The examination of the practical day-to-day matters of ships and ship financing, with particular emphasis on chartering

This work is a handy reference for those working in transport, especially in maritime transport:

• students
• shipowners
• charterers
• managers
• agents
• freight forwarders
• marine insurers
• claims handlers
• legal advisers

• The freight market
• The state of the market
• Shipowning conditions and market activities
• Information channels
• Marketing
• Sales contract, carriage and bill of lading
• Charter forms
• Freight calculations
• Chartering routines
• General legal points of view
• Common clauses and concepts
• The voyage charter-party
• The time charter-party
• The volume contract of affreightment
• Gencon
• Linertime
• Conlinebill
• New York Produce Exchange form 1993
• Shelltime 4
• Shellvoy 5
• Letter of credit - the function of the bill of lading
• Saleform 1993
• Voylayrules 1993
• Baltic Code 2000
• FONASBA time

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