Common use of Laytime Clause in Contracts

Laytime. 19.3.1 Laytime starts counting at 8.00a.m. the next working day if NOR is validly tendered during normal office hours, between 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. local time from Monday to Friday. Time from 5.00p.m. Friday (or at 5.00p.m. on a day preceding an official holiday) until the following Monday at 8.00a.m. (or at 8.00 a.m. on the day following an official holiday) not to count, even if used. 19.3.2 Time used for shifting from the pilot station or anchorage to loading berth and from loading berth to anchorage, as well as time used for opening/closing of hatches, custom clearance, shifting, mooring/unmooring, gangway lowering and for draft survey not to count as lay-time or time on demurrage. Time lost/delays incurred at port due to navigational restrictions and/or regulations always for the Buyer’s account (and shall not count as laytime or demurrage). In case in the same period of time one procedure should be counted as lay-time and other excluded from it, the procedure which should be excluded prevails, i.e. time will not be counted as lay-time or time on demurrage. 19.3.3 Any delays to the vessel’s arrival at the place of loading, or the loading operation, or the vessel’s departure from the load port following the completion of loading caused directly or indirectly by an Event of Force Majeure as defined by section 26 shall not count as lay-time or time on demurrage. This exceptions clause applies to interrupt laytime and/or demurrage whether or not the Event of Force Majeure in question ultimately results in a partial or complete prevention of performance for the purposes of section 26. 19.3.4 All other terms and conditions as per relevant C/P. For the avoidance of doubt, the relevant C/P is that applying to the carrying voyage.