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LITIGATION EXPERIENCE
The company’s personnel have acted as experts on many occasions in the following types of cases:
- Collision (including angle of blow and speed, simulation and plotting)
- Grounding
- Total loss
- CTL
- Sinking / Foundering
- Fire/explosion
- Unsafe port/berth
- Loss of deck containers
- Seaworthiness and due diligence
- (Mis) Description of vessel
- Bunker disputes (quality and quantity)
- Marine machinery
- Cranes
- Resistance and propulsion, including cp propellers
- Speed and consumption / performance disputes
- Dry and liquid cargo disputes, including damage and contamination
- Ship management
- MOA disputes
- Repairer’s liability
- Charterparty disputes in general
- Bill of lading disputes in general
- Salvage
- Timber deck cargo losses
- Shipbuilding disputes
- Refrigerated cargo damage
- Steering gear failures
- Control system failures
- Tanker slow pumping disputes
- Pollution
- Tank cleaning / preparation for hot work
Past Cases
Cases have involved most kinds of vessel including bulk carriers, general cargo vessels, container vessels, multipurpose vessels, passenger vessels, ferries, roro vessels, high speed craft, VLCCs, products and chemical tankers, gas tankers, reefers, forest product carriers, etc.
High profile cases where we have acted as experts include:
- “NASSIA”/”SHIPBROKER”
- “AEGEAN SEA”
- “NEDLLOYD RECIFE”
- “ALBION TWO”
- “AL SALHEIA”
- “D G HARMONY”
- “KARTERIA”
- “CMA DJAKARTA”
- “ACONCAGUA”
- “ABT SUMMER”
- “HANJIN PENNSYLVANIA”
- “SOLITAIRE”
- “BOW SPRING” / “MANZANILLO II”
- “IRAN ABAD” / “MERAWI”
- “BERGEN ARROW” / “PLATITERA”
- “DAWN MERCHANT” / “BRAVE MERCHANT”
- “ICE FERN”
- “NAPORISTYI”
- “MSC NAPOLI”
- “HAKKI DEVAL” / “ELEFTHERIA”
Clients
Our clients in the past have included most major maritime law firms, P & I Clubs, underwriters and (directly or indirectly): Astilleiros Espanoles, BP, Chartworld, China Shipbuilding, Chiquita / Great White Fleet, Columbia Ship Management, COSCO, Cunard Line, DFDS, EDF Man, El Paso, NYK, North China Shipping, ENAP (Chile), Evalend Shipping, Exxon Mobil, Glencore, Great Circle Shipping, J. Lauritzen, K Line, KOTC, Louis Cruise Line, Maersk Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Novoship, Orient Shipping, P & O, Precious Shipping, Orient Shipping Rotterdam BV, Sanko Line, Shell, Star Cruises, TBS and Vitol.
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