damages for delay

The trial court found that although the contract lacked a damages for delays clause, Flintco's interference caused damage to the sub-contractor.

In commercial ship chartering, demurrage is an ancillary cost that represents liquidated damages for delays.

An extension of time relieves the contractor of liability for liquidated damages for delays up to the new completion date caused by the occurrence of risks which are outside the contractor's responsibility.

The federal government will owe $7 billion in damages for delays in opening a nuclear waste dump if the repository opens in 2017 - the earliest date now possible - and any further delay will raise the price half a billion dollars a year, the head of the radioactive waste program said Tuesday.