Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 08/2025
Challenges ahead
Unlike container lines and ferry operators where ships run on fixed schedules between ports known in advance, tankers and bulkers deployed in global trades can be fixed anywhere for any voyage, subject only to physical constraints. In timecharters, shipowners merely accept hire for use of their ships and crews for a certain period. They have no control over vessel deployment or cargo operations, within specified limits. Bareboat charters and, to some extent, contracts of affreightment, both used frequently in the bulk trades, also mean that owners have little control in their ships’ activities....