TTMI Sarl v. Statoil ASA (The “Sibohelle”) – QBD (Comm. Ct.), 9 May 2011

SHELLVOY 5 — ERRONEOUS PARTY NAMED IN CHARTER — WHETHER CONTRACT BINDING BY PERFORMANCE — ARBITRATION JURISDICTION — Owner Award

The fixture recap erroneously listed TTMI’s parent company, Sempra Energy, as the time chartered Owner rather than TTMI. Thus, when TTMI claimed demurrage, Charterer denied that a contract with TTMI existed and alternatively, if a contract was deemed to have been created by performance, that the terms would not be as set forth in the fixture recap.