This book provides practical solutions for addressing energy efficiency as a clause term within
a charter party contract. For this upon a reflection of the regulatory craft it analyzes key
concepts of case law and discusses them together with commercial and economic principles. In
this way the book aims at offering a comprehensive interdisciplinary view of the chartering
process together with a new approach for safeguarding energy efficiency investments. A special
emphasis is given to the maritime industry. Here the newly developed framework based on game
theory has been successfully applied to demonstrate the importance of including a clause term
in contract negotiation to achieve protection against both an uncertain market and an even more
challenging shipping environment. The book not only fills a gap in the literature covering a
topic that has been largely neglected to date yet it offers researchers and practitioners
extensive information to change the chartering process radically.
