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  • Articles
    • How ultra-large ships pose high salvage challenges
    • Towcon 2008 and the coronavirus
    • LOF 2020: is this a vintage edition?
    • How a lack of class can be costly
    • Crewless tug no longer unthinkable
    • Case of stamina and determination
    • Caution needed when taking on Uncle Sam
    • Environmental concern not enough
    • Have we just scored an own goal?
    • Nothing new about risks of towing a hulk
    • When a broker calls in the lawyers
    • Wording offers protection for salvage firms
    • Caution is needed when agreeing provisions that amend the knock-for-knock position
    • LOF decline is a cause for concern
    • Multiple collision: who has to pay?
    • Girting – Communication is vital
    • Provisions are litigation time-bomb
    • Make them an offer they can’t refuse
    • Towing the line on defining salvage
    • Take care in heavily mined waters
    • A Threat to Tugs and Barges – Piracy in the Sulu Sea:  The “new Somalia” or a limited threat?
    • Precedents provide legal certainty
    • How the blame game gets resolved
    • Who pays if it doesn’t go to plan?
    • Viva España on Place of Refuge
    • Why everybody needs a Brave Betty
    • Judge decides tug and tow one unit
    • Cargo owners will shoulder Ever Given salvage payments
  • Archive 2015
    • Why insurers are sleeping uneasily
    • With all due respect… you’re wrong
    • Rescue towage requires an element of caution
    • Tactics can make a big difference
    • Tug operators have a duty of readiness
    • Nightmare of finding place of refuge
  • Archive 2014
    • Arbitration usually for a good reason
    • Securing a fair deal for operators
    • When there’s nothing left to save
    • Calling LOF: Are you alive and well?
    • Tax? A comradely wave of sympathy
    • The importance of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, 2001
    • The ever-spiralling costs of wreck removal
  • Archive 2013
    • Check vessel condition pre-purchase
    • When should the industry ‘take a stand’?
    • Why should an OSV operator get involved in salvage?
    • The freedom to put life before financial interests
    • Lien powers can work a treat
    • ‘Game-changing’ aspect to wreck removal
    • Tanker Escort Tug Operations – the legal perspective
    • Ouch, the very pain of delay
    • Old habits die hard in the towage world
    • Delay penalties can cut both ways
  • Archive 2012
    • Can salvage sub-contracts be set aside for unfairness?
    • Environmental Salvage – What is all the fuss about?
    • Factors at play in common law salvage claims
    • No salvage operation is ever clear-cut
    • Is knock for knock always bullet-proof?
    • Salvage or not?
  • Archive 2011
    • MV RENA grounding. The New Zealand Accident Investigation Commission report has now been issued on the grounding.
    • New Lloyd’s Open Form is timely and practical

MV RENA grounding. The New Zealand Accident Investigation Commission report has now been issued on the grounding.

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February 2023 – Paul Haworth joins the TugAdvise team

Paul, a Master Mariner solicitor, has for many years acted for tug owners and salvors, as well as Clubs and insurers on wet cases, and was himself Master of a DP vessel in the offshore sector before coming ashore to retrain as a lawyer.  His arrival further strengthens our unique, dedicated legal service to the…

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Articles

Warnings to barge operators – a critical look at BIMCO’s BARGEHIRE 2021

Each year, around 800 Bimco BARGEHIRE contracts are signed, currently on its SmartCon platform. It is understandable, with such an uptake, that Bimco should periodically review this barge-leasing contract. The most recent iteration of the 1994 and 2008 versions was published in 2021. The above usage excludes hybrid versions developed in-house by some of the…

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The “EVER GIVEN” – grounding Suez Canal – March 2021

Smit Salvage BV & Ors v Luster Maritime SA & Anr (The ‘Ever Given’) [2023] EWHC 697 Admlty) Today we look at what went wrong and the lessons to be learned when in March 2021 the owners of the EVER GIVEN sought to avoid a salvage claim and started negotiations for a commercial contract to…

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