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  • Articles
    • 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
  • 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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Michael Howard QC has joined TugAdvise

“Simon Tatham, senior partner says: “Michael Howard QC is a leading Admiralty barrister known to many and a former Lloyd’s Arbitrator.  He has acted for many of the major salvors as advocate and presided over innumerable LOF and similar cases, apart from having a commercial practice advising on the usual wide range of charterparty and…

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TOWHIRE & TOWCON 2021

Regular columnist Simon Tatham casts a legal eye over what is to be expected within the 2021 updates of BIMCO’s TOWCON and TOWHIRE standard contracts Contractual workhorses of the towage world, TOWCON and TOWHIRE 2008 have just been updated with the 2021 editions and are to be published by BIMCO very shortly, after final review by their drafting committee. The finalised forms are eagerly awaited. That is not…

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LOF – claims by dispossessed salvors

In February 1977 a vessel in ballast, Unique Mariner, ran aground in Indonesian waters not far from Singapore.  The master was advised by ship’s agents that a tug would be sourced. A professional salvor’s tug turned up from Singapore and the master mistakenly thinking that it was the tug procured by the agents, signed Lloyd’s…

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