| Award 1166

Award N°1166 – Gencon C-P – Period of time excluded from laytime – Ship’s agent contract. The C-P provides for time not to count on Saturday and Sunday : the common intention of the parties clearly is to exclude the week-end from laytime. Those two days will therefore not count as laytime in order to stick to what parties have freely agreed as well as to the custom of the port because in Algeria the week end runs on Thursday and Friday. The FIO clause of the C-P allocates risks and liabilities flowing from commercial operations entirely on charterers which have the task to get it organised and the ship’s agent, acting as representative of owners, cannot be held liable in this respect.