American Trading and Production Corporation v. Shell International Marine Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• closing of Suez Canal requiring charterer to sail nearly twice as many miles at . . . cost of nearly one-third more than . . . contract price does not excuse performance
• closing of Suez Canal requiring charterer to sail nearly twice as many miles at a cost of nearly one third more than the contract price does not excuse performance
• closing of Suez Canal requiring charterer to sail nearly twice as many miles at a cost of nearly one third more than the contract price does not excuse performance
• “Mere increase in cost alone is not a sufficient excuse for non- performance. It must be an ‘extreme and unreasonable’ expense.”
• no relief for increase of less than one-third

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).