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A SHIP MANAGER received a formal notice of claim from a firm of solicitors representing a ship’s engineer. The letter of claim explained that this gentlemen had been employed by the ship manager some

A chartering broker arranged a fixture for a voyage from the Black Sea to Singapore. The recap showed the identity of both the registered owners and the disponent owner with whom the negotiations

A liner agent had been paying 2.5% of all freight, paid on export cargo to the local tax authorities. Local regulations made the local agent jointly liable for the tax with the foreign carrier. When

A layup manager arranged the blanking of sea valves for a vessel going into cold layup. The manager, as agent for the owners, arranged for a contractor to fit internal blanks to the sea valves. The

A ship was put into Manila anchorage en route to a discharge port for a crew change as there were Filipino crew on board. The crew change at Manila was organised by the ship manager, through an

A yard contracted naval architects to provide designs for four identical hulls in the summer of 2021. The hulls were to be the basis of a passenger vessel, and three different owners were destined to

I have been asked - Is there really a difference between negligence and gross negligence under English law? English law has no real concept of “gross negligence” but the courts will try and give

Robert's journey began at sea, crewing on superyachts and later joining the merchant navy as a deck officer. As the Account Executive for Greece, South East Asia, and Monaco, he is a regular

A yacht broker acted for potential buyers in negotiations for the purchase of a superyacht. An MOA was entered into, where the yacht broker agreed to act as stakeholders for the buyers’ deposit of

A naval architect was engaged by a customer to design a 24m catamaran to service the offshore oil and gas industry. During sea trials following construction of the vessel and after