This document analyzes the legal issues in the case of hire clause respectively regulations of hire. It is an important item in the regulation of the contractual relationship of transportation of goods by sea and it is considered necessary to point out its contents and legal problems. The work is divided into two parts. The first part outlines the theoretical explanations of legal issues in the case of freight (hire) exclusively from the standpoint of the provisions from the croatian legal sources of maritime law - the Maritime Code. This section of the work systematize the contracts of employment of ships, stands out the spot contract transporting goods by sea within the same systematization, amounts the term, elements and types of contracts transporting goods by sea. Determined the term of hire, it's elements, and other legal issues paying the hire. The second part specifically addresses the content of the provisions of freight respectively hire clause in the case of the standard forms of contracts transporting goods by sea. It points out the reasons for the suspension of hire (off-hire) as in the case of damage, deviations, etc. Determination of contents of clause hire primarily refers to the standard forms of carriage goods by sea, code-named BALTIME & NYPE.