2.3.In de Supplytime 2005 is - voor zover hier relevant - het volgende opgenomen:
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3. Condition of Vessel
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(b)The Owners shall exercise due diligence to maintain the Vessel in such Class and in every way fit for the service stated in
Clause 6throughout the period of this Charter Party.
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7. Master and Crew
(…)
(d)The entire operation, navigation and management of the Vessel shall be in the exclusive control and command of the Owners, their Master, Officers and Crew. The Vessel will be operated and the services hereunder will be rendered as requested by the Charterers, subject always to the exclusive right of the Owners or the Master of the Vessel to determine whether operation of the Vessel may be safely undertaken. In the performance of the Charter Party, the Owners are deemed to be an independent contractor, the Charterers being concerned only with the results of the services performed.
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11. BIMCO ISPS/MTSA Clause for Time Charter Parties
(a)(…)
(iii) Except as otherwise provided in this Charter Party, loss, damages, expense or delay (excluding consequential loss, damages, expense or delay) caused by failure on the part of the Owners or “the Company”/”Owner” to comply with the requirements of the ISPS Code/MTSA or this Clause shall be for the Owners’ account.
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13. Suspension of Hire
(a)If as a result of any deficiency of Crew or of the Owners’stores, strike of Master, Officers and Crew, breakdown of machinery, damage to hull or other accidents to the Vessel, the Vessel is prevented from working, no Hire shall be payable in respect of any time lost and any Hire paid in advance shall be adjusted accordingly provided always however that Hire shall not cease in the event of the Vessel being prevented from working as aforesaid as a result of:
(…)
(b)Liability for Vessel not Working- The Owners’liability for any loss, damage or delay sustained by the Charterers as a result of the Vessel being prevented from working by any cause whatsever shall be limited to suspension of hire, except as provided in
Clause 11(a)(iii).
14. Liabilities and indemnities
(a)
Definitions
For the purpose of this Clause “Owners’Group” shall mean: the Owners, and their contractors and sub-contractors, and Employees of any of the foregoing.
For the purpose of this Clause “Charterers’Group shall mean: the Charterers, and their contractors, sub-contractors, co-venturers and customers (having a contractual relationship with the Charterers, always with respect to the job or project on which the Vessel is employed), and Employees of any of the foregoing.
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(c)
Consequential damages
Neither party shall be liable to the other for any consequential damages whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the performance or non-performance of this Charter Party and each party shall protect, defend and indemnity the other from and against all such claims from any member of its Group as defined in
Clause 14(a).
“Consequential damages” shall include, but not be limited to, loss of use, loss of profits, shut-in or loss of production and cost of insurance, wheather or not foreseeable at the date of this Charter Party.
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