The employment of commercial vessels.
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the employment of commercial vessels Introduction Shipping is a highly international business. There are several methods of employing ships, which generally include owner self-employed and charter parties, and charter parties are the methods well used in tramp shipping trade. In this paper, it is focused on explaining each method by which commercial ships are employed. Main body In the book named Shipbroking and Chartering Practice, as Gorton Ihre and Sandevarn (1989) mentioned, the most of the existing fixtures in shipping can be sorted into one of the following four models, which consist of Liner Shipping, Bareboat Chartering (Demise Chartering), as well as non-demise chartering including Voyage Chartering and Time Chartering. Liner shipping, as a concept, is opposed to tramp shipping. In liner shipping the carrier decides and fixes the routes, which the vessel will be plying. And all the vessels in liner shipping trade are on regular services between fixed terminuses. In normal times it...

