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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

Archive 2012

Can salvage sub-contracts be set aside for unfairness?
November 2012

Environmental Salvage – What is all the fuss about?
November 2012

Factors at play in common law salvage claims
July 2012

No salvage operation is ever clear-cut
May 2012 

Is knock for knock always bullet-proof?
March 2012

Salvage or not?
January 2012 

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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

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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The EVER GIVEN – was there a concluded contract? The Admiralty Court says no.

The grounding of the 20,400 teu “EVER GIVEN” in the Suez Canal is well-known, but much less is understood about what was going on behind the scenes as the parties negotiated for her refloating. It has proven controversial. A recent Admiralty Court judgement has now thrown light upon exactly what happened. At about 07.40hrs LT…

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