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Ships Chartering Masterclass In Cairo

28th September - 2nd October 2025, Cairo, Egypt

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This course highlights all legal and practical solutions to avoid disputes and pitfalls in chartering ships and when negotiating charterparty contracts.

It will enable participants to better negotiate with the charterparties, have insight to make strategic decisions on chartering and to be at an advantage when negotiating chartering contracts.

The knowledge and expertise gained from this course will enable the participants to return to work with many new strategies to apply in practice.

What you'll learn

  • Acquire detailed and thorough knowledge of ship chartering contracts.

  • Recognize the differences between the many types of charterparties

  • Appreciate the rights and obligations of Charterers and Owners

  • Avoiding pitfalls in negotiating chartering contracts

  • Manage & mitigate the risks involved in chartering vessels

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Who Should Join :

This Ships’ Chartering Masterclass is highly recommended for staff involved in day-to-day shipping operations or administration such as:

  • Ships’ owners/Representatives

  • Ships operators

  • Ships’ Masters

  • Charterers/Representatives

  • Shipbrokers

  • Freight forwarders

  • Ships’ Agents

  • Claim handlers

  • Adjusters and consultants

  • Traders: Import, Export

  • Logistics, operations and distribution Managers

  • Accountants

  • Maritime Lawyers

  • New entrants to the shipping industry

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Batch starting from: 14 July 2022

Topics

Day 1 Sunday 28 September 2025

Time

Topic

08:00 – 09:00

Registeration

09:00 -10:30

Introduction to the different types of shipping contracts and related forms

  • The basic principles of chartering / types of shipping contracts
  • Introduction to Voyage Charter
  • Introduction to Time Charter
  • Bareboat Charter overview
  • Contract of Affreightment (CoA) overview

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Time Chartering

NYPE 2015, Shelltime, others and other forms

The duties of the owners to provide a seaworthy ship on delivery and throughout the charter period.

  • Seaworthiness/unseaworthiness
  • Cargoworthiness
  • The effect of the Hague/Hague-Visby Rules
  • The employment clause
  • Implied indemnities

The duties of the charterers

Charter Period and related issues

  • Trip time charter/issues
  • Overlap/Underlap
  • Last voyage clause/issues
  • Illegitimate last voyage orders

Early redelivery-consequences and obligations of the owner

12:30 -13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Payment of hire

  • Absolute obligations-The importance of paying hire as agreed in the charterparty
  • Consequences of not paying hire as agreed.
  • Options/remedies to the owners if hire not paid as agreed.
  • Paying hire for the last voyage
  • Withdrawing the ship and the owners’ rights for damages
  • Withdrawal Clause-Withdrawal Notice
  • Wrongful withdrawals-examples-consequences-precautions
  • Deductions from hire/issues/ recommendations

Responsibilities between the charterers and owners 

  • Responsibilities of the owners and charterers
  • The responsibilities for cargo operations/effect of specific provisions
  • Expenses to be shared.

 

Case Study
Day 2 Monday 29 September 2025

Time

Topic

09:00 – 10:30

Time Charter

Off-hire clauses and related issues

  • General principles
  • Exceptions to off-hire
  • Preventing the full working of the ship/ Reduction in speed
  • The effect of specific provisions
  • Bunkers and other obligations during off-hire periods

 

Employment of the ship, related clauses and issues

  • Valid employment order
  • Conflicting requirements
  • Orders, which the Master has a duty to refuse
  • Employment versus navigation/seamanship
  • Unsafe ports/cargoes
  • Indemnity arising from the signing bills of lading

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Underestimating the Importance of Speed and Consumption Clauses

  • Ship performance guarantees are critical to avoid costly disputes
  • Define expected speed and fuel consumption levels.
  • Establish methods for monitoring compliance.

 

Performance clause/ claims if vessel under agreed performance
• Remedies available to the charterer in cases where the vessel under performance

  • Utmost despatch /consequences if neglected by the Master
  • Customary assistance
  • Damages for deficient performance
  • Slow steaming/not full working of equipment

 

Case Study

12:30 -13:30

Lunch
Day 3 Tuesday 30 September 2025

Time

Topic

09:00 – 10:30

Liens /challenges/consequences/remedies

  • Types of Liens
  • Challenges in enforcing Liens
  • Lien clauses
  • Freight pre-paid bills of lading issues
  • Alternative remedies
  • Where the lien on the cargo may be exercised
  • Charterers lien on the ship

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

The charterers’ obligations to nominate safe ports

  • The elements to be considered of safe ports.
  • Consequences of orders to unsafe port
  • Charter’s obligation if a safe port becomes unsafe

12:30 -13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Resolving disputes/ options/recommendations

dispute resolution process (e.g., arbitration or mediation).

Tips for Successful Time Chartering

Time Chartering Mistakes to Avoid

Case Study
Day 4 Wednesday 01 October 2025

Time

Topic

09:00 – 10:30

Voyage Charter

Introduction to Voyage Chartering

Different forms:

  • Gencon 2022
  • Shellvoy
  • ASBAGASVOY
  • Other forms

 

Arrived ship criteria

  • Port or Berth charterparty
  • The Specified destination
  • Legal readiness
  • Valid NOR (When and how to be given)

 

Owners’ Responsibilities 

  • The duty to provide a seaworthy ship
  • Cargoworthiness 
  • Cancellation clauses
  • Deviation and Liberty Clauses

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

The Charterers’ Obligations

  • Provide agreed cargo and quantity 
  • Breach of charterparty terms, consequences 

Loading and Discharging

  • Stevedores’ damage 
  • Dangerous Cargo
  • Deck cargo

12:30 -13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Laytime/Demurrage and Despatch

  • When can laytime be suspended or stopped
  • Demurrage, damages for detention

 
Day 5 Thursday 02 October 2025

Time

Topic

09:00 -10:30

Laytime Calculations

  • Types of laytime 
  • Interpretations and exceptions to laytime
  • Commencement of laytime
  • Express exceptions to laytime
  • General exceptions

Examples for the types of laytime calculations

 

Paramount Clauses

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Delay due to charterers/shippers/receivers

  • Delay arising without the default of either the shipowners or charterers
  • Congestion
  • Strikes
  • Action of port or other authorities
  • Delay due to other third parties

 Frustration

  • Destruction of the ship or cargo 

Illegality

12:30 -13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

Case Study 

Closing Remarks/ Recommendations

Syllabus

Chapter 1
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Chapter 5
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Your instructor

Captain Mohammed Bazina

Capt. Mohamed Bazina brings over three decades of experience in the global shipping industry, combining practical expertise with a strong academic foundation. He holds a Master of Science in Shipping Management from New York Maritime College, a Master Mariner License, and a Diploma in Advanced Chartering (Time & Voyage Chartering) from the Association of Ship Brokers and Agents (USA). He has also earned chartering certificates from Lloyd’s Maritime Academy and BIMCO. Capt. Bazina served as a Lecturer at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Alexandria, teaching Maritime Law and Chartering. He also advised on commercial maritime disputes and chartering cases in Egyptian courts on behalf of AASTMT. His professional career includes 17 years with Qatar Petroleum, where he held various positions and served on the Maritime Committee of the State of Qatar, providing legal advice on maritime matters. Additionally, he has 10 years of seafaring experience on various ship types. Currently, Capt. Bazina works as a consultant specializing in commercial maritime issues, dispute resolution, contract negotiation (including Sale & Purchase and chartering agreements), and delivers training on Ships' Chartering and Maritime Law.

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