Common Contracts
1 similar Chartering Contract contracts
Appendix II: Sources concerning freight ratesChartering Contract • February 9th, 2009
In order to establish the price of transport we heavily relied on one kind of source which is found in massive numbers in the Amsterdam notarial archives: chartering contracts. A chartering contract is an agreement between a shipping company and one or more freighters or charterers who charter the ship for a particular voyage or, less often, for a specified period like a month. The freighter chartered the whole or part of the ship to carry a cargo from port A to port B at a certain price. The contracts contain the name of the shipmaster who was acting in the name of the shipping company, his residence, the name of the charterer (s), the name of the ship, the freight charge and often but not always the tonnage of the ship and the kind of cargo and its quantity or weight. The chartering contracts are also called charter-parties or freight contracts. In Amsterdam lots of chartering contracts were notarized, which means that a signed copy was entered in notarial registers. An unknown numbe
