Chartering and post-fixture
A post-fixture desk lives among recaps, statements of facts, notices of readiness and the threads that follow a late NOR or a disputed shifting time. This programme treats those papers as the working material rather than as illustrations of a generic document course. Attendees learn to read a recap against the governing form, to extract laytime events without inventing times the SOF never recorded, and to draft a demurrage narrative a claims handler can check clause by clause. Time is spent on BIMCO wording variants, on reservation of rights in owner–charterer correspondence, and on the NOR conditions that make a tender valid or worthless. The outcome is a first-pass habit that remains fully traceable to the file.
Sessions
- Reading a recap against the governing charterparty form and listing every departure in plain language.
- Extracting laytime events from an SOF, including handwritten amendments and poorly scanned columns.
- Drafting a demurrage claim narrative with clause citations the claims desk can re-check.
- Comparing two BIMCO clause variants and stating what actually changes in operations.
- Building a checklist prompt for NOR tendering conditions at the named port.
- Summarising owner/charterer correspondence threads without losing the reservation of rights.
- Re-deriving a laytime total by hand once, then marking every figure the model supplied.
What you leave with: a prompt pack for the post-fixture desk, a one-page verification routine for SOF arithmetic, and a record of the exercises used on the cohort’s own redacted papers.