noun
definition
A person who charters something
Examples of charterer in a Sentence
In most chartered situations it is the charterer who remains responsible for employing local stevedores.
The consul may even defray the expenses of maintaining, and forwarding to their destination, passengers taken off or picked up from wrecked or injured vessels, if the master does not undertake to proceed in six weeks; these expenses becoming, in terms of the Passenger Acts 1855 and 1863, a debt due to His Majesty from the owner or charterer.
On a chartered ship it is usually the charterer who bears the risk of employing stevedores to carry out activities on a ship.
Lay days, which are days given to the charterer in a charter party either to load or unload without paying for the use of the ship, are days of the week, not periods of twenty-four hours.