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Annual contributions to the Fund will be made in respect of each Contracting State by any person who, in any calendar year, has received total quantities of oil exceeding 150,000 tons. However, for the purposes of the Protocol, there is a minimum aggregate receipt of 1,000,000 tons of contributing oil in each Contracting State.

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There is no stand on vessel in RV. as per rule 19d(ii) Alter course to starboard.

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Contract of Affreightment is the expression usually employed to describe the contract between a ship-owner  and another person called the charterer, by which the ship-owner agrees to carry goods of the charterer in his ship, or  to give to the charterer the use of the whole or part of the cargo-carrying space of the ship for the carriage of his goods on a specified voyage or voyages or for a specified time. The charterer on his part agrees to pay a specified price, called freight, for the carriage of the goods or the use of the ship.

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Generally done for large quantities of Cargo ...Like LNG for 3 yrs from say port X to Port Y

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For Voyage C/P

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An agreement between a charterer on the one hand and a shipowner, disponent owner or carrier on the other hand, for the carriage of a specified (and often large) quantity of named goods between specified places, over a specified (and usually long) period of time, by vessels of a type and size specified by the charterers, but which are nominated by owners.
 
For example, a charterer contracts with a shipowner for the carriage of 900, 000 tonnes of iron ore from named ports in Brazil to named ports in Europe, with shipments of 120, 000 tonnes ( /- 10% at owners option) at intervals of approximately one month. The COA may be based on a standard charterparty as the main COA document, with a number of rider clauses added, or on a main COA document supplemented by separate voyage charterparties relating to each voyage made by nominated vessels under the COA.

Note - Contract of affreightment in the legal sense is often used as a contract of carriage by sea, e. g. a charter agreement or the contract expressed in a bill of lading.

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After telling everything from the Grain Code do tell that you will fill ballast.

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Measures to reduce the volumetric heeling moment of
filled and partly filled cargo compartments

By use of longitudinal divisions  these are required to be grain tight and of an approved scantling.

By means of a saucer and bundling bulk  a saucer shape is constructed of bulk bundles in the hatch square of a filled compartment. The depth of the saucer being established between 1.3 and 1.4 m depth dependent on the ships beam, below the deck line.

By overstowing in a partly filled compartments  achieved by trimming the surface level flat and covering with a separation cloth then tightly stowing
bagged grain to a depth of one sixteenth the depth of the free grain stow.

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Clause Paramounts inserted in all C/P and has the effect of Incorporating Hague or Hague Visby or Hamburg Rules to the contract of Carriage.
Clause Paramounts requires that all B/L issued to incorporate such Rules/Act so that the Consignee (who may be in some other country) always knows the rules under which carriage is done. The same is also inserted in C/P so that the Shipowner and Charterer agree to the condition of Carriage prior signing the C/P.