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Ian Perrott

30th June 2016

Ian Perrott is acknowledged as a leading expert in the chartering and operation of offshore vessels.

Ian teaches, presents and writes on the subject, often through BIMCO, and recently was Chairman of the BIMCO drafting committee for SUPPLYTIME 2017. He is now involved in the drafting of a series of specialist activity Annexes for BIMCO that will complement the SUPPLYTIME 2017 form.

Keith Harper

10th February 2015

Keith Harper is Solicitor/ Master Mariner, Consultant and has been involved in shipbuilding, sale and purchase and charterparty disputes and his areas of expertise are in tendering, salvage and towage.

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…

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…

Ian Perrott

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