dead freight

English

Alternative forms

• deadfreight

Noun

dead freight (uncountable)

1. A sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.

Translations

Sum of money paid by one who charters a vessel but does not fill it

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kuollut rahti French: faux fret (fr) m German: Fehlfracht f, Fautfracht f, Ausfallfracht f (the exact correspondence of legal implications is controversial, see BGH 12.10.1987 – II ZR 62/87 – juris = TranspR 1988, 199, and BGH 04.12.1989 – II ZR 305/88 – juris = NJW 1990, 2257) Greek: please add this translation if you can Swedish: dödfrakt c Turkish: please add this translation if you can