the LASH barges to a fleeting area in the Calcutta docks, moving them for loading and unloading purposes, and towing them back to Calcutta to be reloaded on the mother ship, according to schedule. The Memorandum Agreement specifies plainly that it is Eastern’s responsibility to ensure safe towing and handling of the barges in tow. Construction of a maritime contract is governed by maritime law. Theriot v. Bay Drilling Corp., 783 F.2d 527, 538 (5th Cir.1986). The court in Moore v. Phillips Petroleum Co., 912 F.2d 789 (5th Cir.1990) reviewed the unique characteristics of a time charter agreement: Under the traditional time-charter agreement, the time charterer directs the vessel’s commercial activities. It may designate the cargo to ine Office, Inc., 462 F.Supp. 485, 490 (E.D.La.1978) (<HOLDING>). The time charterer’s duties are different
holding an officer may order a passenger to get out of a car during a traffic stop and may frisk a passenger for weapons if the officer reasonably suspects the passenger is armed and dangerous holding that the time to disposition is more important than time to trial holding time charterer liable for injury to passenger during navigation in rough seas when time charterer decided to encounter the weather holding that the relevant time is the time of the employment decision holding that an encounter was consensual where the defendant was comfortable during the encounter chose not to leave and acquiesced to the officers request to answer questions