War Trade Board Files
Supplemental Agreement between the Norwegian Shipping Commissioners and the United States Shipping Board
May 25, 1918
This Supplemental Agreement, Made this 25th day of May, 1918, between T. Dannevig and Emil Stray, Norwegian Shipping Commissioners, for and on behalf of the Norwegian Ship Owners’ Association and the several owners of the vessels entered or to be entered under this agreement, and the United States Shipping Board;
Witnesseth:
- 1.
- This agreement shall supplement and become a part of the attached agreement dated April 20, 1918,1 between the same parties, and shall be deemed applicable to all vessels heretofore or hereafter entered under that agreement.
- 2.
- Charterers shall have the option of having vessel take general cargo instead of coal from north Atlantic ports to Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and/or Buenos Aires, the rate of freight on general cargo to be One Dollar and Fifty cents ($1.50), United States Gold, in addition to the rates for coal as specified in said agreement of April 20, 1918, freight to be paid on vessel’s guaranteed deadweight carrying capacity, and all other terms to be the same as for coal, except that if a vessel comes on demurrage, Sundays and holidays are not to count.
- 3.
- Charterers shall have the right to load tin, as well as heavy grain, flour, wool, and/or chrome ore, from Australia to either San Francisco or north Atlantic ports, provided the quantity of tin and/or chrome ore in any one vessel does not exceed one-third of the vessel’s deadweight carrying capacity, the rate of freight for tin to be the same as that for the other commodities carried.
Witness to the signature of
Witness to the signature of United States Shipping Board by
T. Dannevig
N. D. Cunningham
Emil Stray
N. D. Cunningham
Witness to the signature of United States Shipping Board by
E. F. Carry
, Director of
Operations
J. F. Andrews