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shipment of freight
- In charter party
…are four principal methods of chartering a tramp ship—voyage charter, time charter, bareboat charter, and “lump-sum” contract. The voyage charter is the most common. Under this method a ship is chartered for a one-way voyage between specific ports with a specified cargo at a negotiated rate of freight. On time…
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The four principal methods of chartering a tramp ship are voyage charter, time charter, bareboat charter, and contract charter. The voyage charter, in which a ship is chartered for a one-way voyage between specified ports, with a specified cargo at a negotiated rate of freight, is most common. The charterer…
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