Moor Line Limited v Manganexport GmbH
Shipping – Charterparty – Loading – Commencement of laydays.
A charterparty provided that the ship should proceed to her loading port and there load in
customary manner in regular turn with other steamers loading ore for the charterers. The time
for loading was to count from 6 am after the ship was reported and ready, and in free pratique
(whether in berth or not) in accordance with the above provision. Laydays were not to
commence before 10 June 1934, unless loading commenced sooner.