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

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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…

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…

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

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