{"id":10499,"date":"2012-06-07T03:28:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T03:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.14\/index.php\/2012\/06\/07\/can-an-owner-reject-to-accept-a-charterer-s-repudiatory-breach-in-redelivering-the-vessel-early\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:21:46","slug":"can-an-owner-reject-to-accept-a-charterer-s-repudiatory-breach-in-redelivering-the-vessel-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/can-an-owner-reject-to-accept-a-charterer-s-repudiatory-breach-in-redelivering-the-vessel-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Can an owner reject to accept a charterer’s repudiatory breach in redelivering the vessel early?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the current difficult shipping market, there will be occasions where the charterers repudiate the charterparty and redeliver the vessel to the owners before the time they are entitled to do so.<\/p>\n

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The case of White and Crater (Councils) Ltd v McGregor on the law of contracts held that an innocent party can insist on keeping the contract alive despite the other party has affirmed he will not perform the contract. Two exceptions were stated which would require the claimant’s legal remedy to be limited to a damages claim :<\/p>\n

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1) Where the defendant’s co-operation is required in order for the claimant to complete performance of the contract.
2) Where the claimant has no legitimate interest in performing the contract rather than claiming damages.<\/p>\n

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In (The Oldenfeld) 1978, the Court rejected the charterer’s contention the owners were not entitled to insist the charterers must continue to perform the charterparty when they have repudiated it (with over 6 more years to run). It was said a time charterers’ co-operation was not required to continue to perform the charterparty and if the charterers gave no voyage employment instructions, the vessel would still continue to earn hire when idle. Further, the owners would be placed in the same position as charterers to charter out the vessel in a difficult shipping market and the assessment of owner’s damages would be difficult.<\/p>\n

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However in subsequent cases (The Alaskan Trader) 1984 and in (The Dynamic) 2003, in similar circumstances the Court held the owners were not entitled to require the charterers to continue to perform the charterparty where damages would be an adequate remedy and where an election to require the charterers to continue to perform the charterparty would be unreasonable.<\/p>\n

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In the latest case of (The Aquafaith) 2012, the arbitrators gave an award in favour of charterers and the Court allowed the owners to appeal. Cooke J said there was nothing ( ie. no co-operation) required from the charterers in order for the owners to continue to earn hire and hence the charterparty can be kept alive. In addition Cooke J further increased the burden on the charterers to show the owners had no legitimate interest in maintaining the charter and stated :<\/p>\n

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“The effect of the authorities is that an innocent party will have no legitimate interest in maintaining the contract if damages are an adequate remedy and his insistence on maintaining the contract can be described as “wholly unreasonable” , “extremely unreasonable” or perhaps in my words “perverse” ….The arbitrator should have been asking himself whether or not this was an extreme case of the kind where damages were an adequate remedy and the owner’s conduct was so beyond the pale that they should not be allowed to keep the contract alive.”<\/p>\n

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Based on this new reinterpretation as long as the owners have not been extremely unreasonable, and keeping the charterparty alive in a difficult shipping market is not unreasonable, it would be difficult for the charterers to require the owners must accept their repudiation.<\/p>\n

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See attached file : ALCO20120041 Can an owner reject to accept a charterer’s repudiatory breach in redelivering the vessel early.pdf<\/p>\n

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