LITIGATION EXPERIENCE

The company's personnel have acted as experts on many occasions in the following types of cases:-

• Collision (including angle of blow and speed, simulation and plotting)

• Grounding

• Total Loss

• CTL

• Sinking / Foundering

• Fire / explosion

• Unsafe port / berth

• Loss of deck containers

• Seaworthiness and due diligence

• (Mis) Description of vessel

• Bunker disputes (quality and quantity)

• Marine machinery

• Cranes

• Resistance and propulsion, including cp propellers

• Speed and consumption, including performance disputes

• Dry and liquid cargo disputes, including damage and contamination

• Ship management

• MOA disputes

• Repairer's liability

• Charterparty disputes in general

• Bill of Lading disputes in general

• Salvage

• Timber deck cargo losses

• Shipbuilding disputes

• Refrigerated cargo damage

• Steering gear failures

• Control system failures

• Tanker slow pumping disputes

• Pollution

• Tank cleaning / preparation for hot work

Past Cases

Cases have involved most kinds of vessel including bulk carriers, general cargo vessels, container vessels, multipurpose vessels, passenger vessels, ferries, RoRo vessels, high speed craft, VLCCs, products and chemical carriers, gas tankers, reefers, forest product carriers, etc.

High profile cases where we have acted as experts include:

• "NASSIA" / "SHIPBROKER"

• "AEGEAN SEA"

• "NEDLLOYD RECIFE"

• "ALBION TWO"

• "D G HARMONY"

• "KARTERIA"

• "CMA DJAKARTA"

• "ACONCAGUA"

• "ABT SUMMER"

• "HANJIN PENSYLVANIA"

• "SOLITAIRE"

• "BOW SPRING" / "MANZANILLO II"

• "IRAN ABAD" / "MERAWI"

• "BERGEN ARROW" / "PLATITERA"

• "DAWN MERCHANT" & "BRAVE MERCHANT"

• "ICE FERN"

• "NAPORISTYI"

• "MSC NAPOLI"

• "HAKKI DEVAL" / "ELEFTHERIA"

 

Clients

Our clients in the past have included most major maritime law firms, P&I Clubs, underwriters and (directl;y or indirect;ly): P & O, Cunard Line, Star Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Chiquita / Great White Fleet, Orient Shipping Rotterdam, Precious Shipping, Great Circle Shipping, Evalend Shipping, Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Columbia Ship Management, El Paso, Lauritzen Reefers, Maersk Line, Vitol, KOTC, ENAP (Chile), Astilleiros Espanoles and China Shipbuilding.