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If your job were a piece of art, which one would it be? I think it would be “The Thinker”. Not because I look like the statue, or because that statue was supposed to be part of a larger work called…

Tony Payne, ITIM’s managing director, is retiring at the end of March 2006. Tony started life as a ship agent in both Singapore and Jeddah, which uniquely qualified him to manage a Club whose…

ITIC is always available to give a practical view of documents that you are asked to sign. ITIC will shortly be circulating a Guide to Ship Agency Contracts and a Guide to Ship Management Contracts.…

In the previous section, one of the claims arose because the insurance policy excluded Cuba. Territorial exclusions in charterparties regularly give rise to claims against shipbrokers and managers.…

One of the duties undertaken by ship managers is to arrange insurances. Shipman 98 provides that this shall be “on such terms and conditions as the owners shall have instructed or agreed, in…

There has been a rise in the regulatory burden facing all those in the marine industry. This pattern is likely to continue. Often the practical task of ensuring compliance falls on the ship agent and…

A naval architect was appointed to oversee the design and build of a cradle to be used for the “slipping” of a floating restaurant out of the water for routine maintenance. The wheels of the cradle…

A ship agent in the Far East was approached by an owner asking for details of the maximum draft at a jetty at the port. The person in the agent’s office who usually dealt with calls at the jetty had…

ITIC has assisted a shipbroker to obtain, what we believe, is the first arrest of a ship in a Commonwealth law jurisdiction for unpaid commission. The shipbroker had commenced London arbitration…

Ship agents based in South America found themselves being pursued by owners of a ship that they had never represented. The claim was for legal costs that those owners incurred for filing a response…