port. 1. A harbor where ships load and unload cargo. [Cases: Navigable Waters 14. C.J.S. Navigable Waters § 37.] 2. Any place where persons and cargo are allowed to enter a country and where customs officials are stationed. — Also termed (in sense 2) port of entry. foreign port. 1. One exclusively within the jurisdiction […]
estadia (es-tah-dee-ah), n. [Spanish] Spanish law. 1. A delay in a voyage, or in the delivery of cargo, caused by the charterer or consignee, who becomes liable for demurrage. 2. The time for which the party who has chartered a vessel, or is bound to receive the cargo, must pay demurrage because of a delay
laytime. Maritime law. Time allowed by a voyage charterparty for the charterer to load or unload cargo. • If more time is used, the vessel’s owner is entitled to compensation for the delay, usu. in the form of demurrage. If less time is used, the owner may pay dispatch. See DEMURRAGE; DISPATCH; LAYDAY. [Cases: Shipping
adventure. 1. A commercial undertaking that has an element of risk; a venture. Cf. JOINT VENTURE. 2. Marine insurance. A voyage involving financial and insurable risk, as to a shipment of goods. — Often shortened to venture. [Cases: Insurance 2214.] common adventure. A maritime enterprise, characterized as an undertaking in which all participants, including the
elsewhere, adv. In another place. • In shipping articles, this term, following the designation of the port of destination, must be construed either as void for uncertainty or as subordinate to the principal voyage stated in the preceding words. [Cases: Seamen 7. C.J.S. Seamen §§ 13, 15.]
The port that is the terminus of any particular voyage and where the ship unloads its cargo.
vessel insurance 船舶保险 承保各种船只的船体、机器及附属设备发生保险合同约定的海上灾害而造成的损失。通常以定期保险单(time policy)承保，有时也可以航程保险单(voyage policy)承保。正在建造中的船舶，可投保船舶建造保险（builder’s risk insurance)；久不航行而停靠于港口的航船，可投保港内停泊风险保险(port risk insurance)。