We are pleased to welcome Tony Halliwell to our team. He joins us as a trainee solicitor and has over twenty years of commercial experience in the shipping industry. Tony began his shipping career as a trainee dry cargo broker in Hamburg in 1995 after completing his postgraduate studies in shipping at L’Institut du Shipping de St Nazaire in France. Prior to joining us he was Head of Shipping for an international commodities trading and tanker owning group based in Dubai and West Africa.
The Court of Appeal has put an end to MSC’s hopes of limiting their liability for the losses sustained in the 2012 fire on their chartered vessel, MSC Flaminia. For those who don’t know, the MSC Flaminia was en route from Charleston to Antwerp when there was an explosion[...]
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The UN brokered grain corridor through the Black Sea to facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain has been a godsend for countries reliant on grain imports. It has also seen a regular flow of ships plying this route protected by commercially available insurance. The recent de[...]
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The recent report from the Panama Maritime Authority into the infamous grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal in March 2021 makes for interesting reading not least in relation to the role of the SCA and its pilots in the grounding. Those interested in the findings can[...]
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