The revised BIMCO Infectious or Contagious Disease Clause for Time Charter Parties 2022 is now available. The revision was prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the clause is not intended to be a “Covid-19 clause” - it is designed with future epidemics and pandemics in mind, BIMCO says.
The BIMCO IOCD Clause 2022 is appropriate for outbreaks of diseases on a pandemic scale like Covid-19, and outbreaks at a regional level, such as the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa in 2014-2016.
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