The timely issue of the circumstances in which an owner can refuse a charterer's order to sail through the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden has been exercising legal brains in London.
A London high court judge has been deliberating on an arbitration panel’s ruling that meant a charterer ended up with the bill for a vessel going around the Cape of Good Hope although it wanted the vessel to transit the Suez Canal on a voyage from Germany to China.
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