There are two types of voyage charter - net form and gross form.

A voyage charter specifies a period, known as laytime, for unloading the cargo.

A voyage charter consigns a vessel to a specified transport of commodities between ports or regions.

In a voyage charter the charterer rents the vessel from the loading port to the discharge port.

There are legal differences between a bareboat charter and other types of charter arrangements, commonly called time or voyage charters.

Time becomes an issue in the voyage charter if the tramp ship is late in her schedule or loading or discharging are delayed.

A voyage charter is the hiring of a vessel and crew for a voyage between a load port and a discharge port.

In ship chartering, freight is the price which a charterer pays a shipowner for the use of a ship in a voyage charter.

In commercial shipping, laytime is the amount of time allowed (in hours or days) in a voyage charter for the loading and unloading of cargo.

They use four types of contractual arrangements: the voyage charter, the contract of affreightment, the time charter and the bareboat charter.

In a Voyage Charter, the charterer hires the vessel for a single voyage, while the vessel's owner provides the master, crew, bunkers and supplies.

The Spot Department is designated for the executing of vessel chartering, which includes voyage charters, time charters, and bareboat charters.

Outside of special bulk cargo markets, ships are hired by three types of charter agreements: the voyage charter, the time charter, and the bareboat charter.

During a voyage charter a part or all of a vessel is leased to the charterer for a voyage to a port or a set of different ports.

It has also published a guide for each of the two types of contract between merchant and shipowner: Time Charters and Voyage Charters.

BP Shipping's chartering teams based in London, Singapore, and Chicago also charter third party vessels on both time charter and voyage charter basis.

Voyage Charter: The voyage charter is the most common charter in tramp shipping, according to Schiels.

The owner still manages the vessel but the charterer gives orders for the employment of the vessel, and may sub-charter the vessel on a time charter or voyage charter basis.

A Contract of Affreightment is a contract similar to a voyage charter, but ship-owner undertakes to carry a number of cargoes within a specified period of time on a specified route.

The charterer takes over the vessel for either a certain amount of time (a time charter) or for a certain point-to-point voyage (a voyage charter), giving rise to these two main types of charter agreement.

According to Texas Company v. Hogarth Shipping Corp, a voyage charter is carrying out in 1915 while the British government take control of the vessel while the vessel is in British waters.

Whether that contract or those contracts consisted of a time charter, a voyage charter or one or more bills of lading contracts or some or all of such contracts would have been immaterial to the defendants.

Because the supply of a shipping container to a merchant has a similar nature to the contract of a supply of a vessel to a voyage charter, the industry refers to this container usage beyond the time allowed as Container Demurrage.