Recent experience
Shipbuilding advising on;
- Drafting new shipbuilding contract wordings for start up Korean builder and (separately) for start up Chinese builder
- Negotiating and drafting contract terms for LNG, LPG, FPSO, containership, VLCC, bulker vessels and others
- Rescission of a series of contracts for late payment of instalments and subsequent duties re completion/sale of the vessels and accounting
- Potential liabilities re 22 vessels after class warnings concerning adequacy of fire fighting foam
- Implication of upgrades in technology for bonding membranes of LNG vessels
- FPSO warranty claims, substantial compliance and withholding of final instalment
- Performance/refund guarantees, wordings and enforcement
- Liability for badly carried out warranty repairs
- Terms for sub-contracting and sub-contractors' liabilities
- Builder's risk insurance
- Force majeure/permissible delay
- Changes in class requirements, change orders
- Tank coatings
- Early delivery/late delivery claims
- Reasonable withholding of consent to novation, tax lease novation
- Protecting the series effect
- Claims for personal injury to buyer's supervisor
- Replacement of buyer's supervisor
- Option agreements
- Duty to comply with conditions precedent/obtain approvals
- Defending various claims by buyers for fire damage, collision damage, main engine damage, generator damage, propeller damage, economic loss, consequential loss etc
- Azimuth thruster problems – disputes with sub-contractors and buyer
- Escalation clauses
- Keel laying and subcontracting hull blocks to China
- Licence agreements
Owners/operators advising on;
- Laytime/demurrage
- Withdrawal disputes
- Lien on subfreight, cargo
- Early/late delivery/redelivery. Notices of delivery, narrowing laycan, notices of redelivery. Cancellation, breach, repudiatory breach, damages.
- Cargo readiness
- COA nominations "evenly spread". Breach, repudiatory breach, damages
- Delays on approach voyage
- Intermediate hold cleaning "BUNGA SAGA LIMA"
- Collisions salvage, GA
- Grounding
- Seaworthiness, maintenance, ISM
- Passage planning, chart inventory
- ISPS
- Underperformance/off-hire
- Frustration/Delay
- Voyage abandonment
- Arrest/attachment freezing orders/security
- "SANTA CLARA" acceptance of repudiatory breach
- "KAPETAN PETKO VOIVODA", deck cargo, limitation
- LNG Charters/FOB spot sales
- Jurisdiction
- Bill of lading clausing, switch bills, LOIs
- Hague rules/exceptions and limitations/tonnage limitations