Colliery working days. This is a description of type of laytime depending on the ordinary working hours of the colliery from which the coal will be delivered to the vessel. The working days are related to normal times and in normal circumstances. Colliery holidays will be “holidays” if an exception to laytime exists in the charterparty (for example, “SHEX”). If the workers in a colliery are on strike, the delay is not excepted from the laytime, unless, of course, there is an appropriate “strike clause”, unless a Sunday or holiday occurs during the strike.
