BP 2007 Products

12.4.3 All time used for any lightering operation (excluding any time consumed for the
purposes set out in Section 13.2.2) shall be counted or included in calculating the
time taken by the Buyer to discharge the Vessel or the time in respect of which
the Buyer is liable for demurrage. Any additional steaming and/or waiting time
used solely for the purposes of any lightering operation shall count as Laytime or,
if the Vessel is on demurrage, as demurrage.
12.4.4 Except in relation to any lightering carried out at the request of and for the
purposes of the Seller, any lightering operation carried out shall be at the Buyer’s
risk and the Buyer shall be liable to the Seller in respect of any losses, costs,
damages and proceedings arising therefrom and shall indemnify the Seller in
respect thereof. This Section shall not be included in the scope of Section 33.1.
12.4.5 In relation to any dispute as to quantity when lightering or ship-to-ship transfers
have been undertaken the first laden Vessel’s figures (not being a lightering
Vessel or a receiving Vessel) shall prevail subject always to the provisions of
Section 26.2.
12.5 Dues on Vessels at the Discharge Port
All dues and other charges on the Seller's Vessel at the Discharge Port, other than those
defined by Worldscale as being for the Vessel owners' account, shall be borne by the
Buyer.
Section 13 – Time allowed, delays and demurrage
13.1 Time allowed
The time allowed to the Buyer for the discharge of the quantity of the Product deliverable
by each Vessel hereunder shall be:
13.1.1 in the case of discharge of a full cargo lot:
(a) in the case of Vessels of 15,000 tons summer deadweight or less, 24
running hours; or
(b) in all other cases, 36 running hours; and
13.1.2 in the case of discharge of a part cargo lot, that proportion of 24 or 36 running
hours, as the case may be, which the quantity of the Product in the shipment,
plus 5 percent, bears to the total quantity of Product loaded on the Vessel at the
Loading Terminal(s);
all days and holidays included unless discharging on the day or holiday in question is
prohibited by law or regulation at the Discharge Port.
13.2 Running hours
13.2.1 Running hours shall commence Berth or no Berth 6 hours after NOR is tendered
or on commencement of discharge, whichever is the earlier. For the purposes of
calculating running hours, discharge shall be deemed to be completed upon
disconnection of discharging hoses.
13.2.2 Any delay arising out of or in connection with any of the following situations shall
not be counted or included in calculating the time taken by the Buyer to
discharge the shipment or the time in respect of which the Buyer is liable for
demurrage (whether or not the Vessel is already on demurrage):
(a) awaiting free pratique, tugs, tides, pilot or daylight;
(b) inward passage until the Vessel is securely moored at the Berth and its
gangway, if it is to be used, is in place;
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