18 March 2024
The Laytime Definitions for Charter Parties have been developed to provide practitioners with a set of meanings of commonly used words and phrases. The objective is to help reduce disputes about party intentions in a market where fixtures are often concluded on the basis of a recap message and listed amendments, without the exchange or return of draft contracts. These provisions have been developed for incorporation into charter parties. The latest edition of these definitions is the Laytime Definitions for Charter Parties 2013.
19 June 2019
BIMCO has published an updated version of its widely used Hull Fouling Clause for Time Charter Parties. The new edition more clearly sets out the circumstances and point in time when responsibility for hull cleaning passes from owner to time charterer.
28 February 2018
27 January 2022
The Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) has launched the Nigeria Impact Survey 2021. The purpose of the survey is to better understand the evolving situation in Nigerian ports and terminals and the ethical behavioural changes that may have occurred as a result of the various MACN initiatives carried out in 2021 to improve the operating environment for the shipping industry.
02 June 2016
04 March 2021
The latest editions of TOWCON, TOWHIRE and BARGEHIRE are now available on SmartCon.
07 September 2022
BIMCO recognises that there is a growing number of newer maritime arbitration venues offering their services to the industry. To assist users who wish to resolve their disputes using arbitration services outside the main London, New York and Singapore venues, BIMCO has prepared a list of links to alternative arbitration centres where users can find out more information about these venues.
05 April 2019
18 April 2024
Allie advises clients on a wide range of marine, commercial and international matters in the offshore and energy sectors. She has extensive practical experience of both transactional and contentious work including more than 5 years working in-house for a global oilfield service company. Allie’s work comprises advising on regulatory issues, day-to-day operational matters, contracts (including charters, offshore service contracts, drilling contracts, shipyard agreements, ship agency agreements, equipment leases, product sales and license arrangements), bespoke complex projects and restructurings, disputes and crisis response.
18 April 2024
He has broad experience with maritime liens, ship arrests, maritime attachment and garnishment remedies, transport and sale of goods contracts, cargo claims, shipping casualties, and marine pollution. For energy companies, Chris has experience with upstream and midstream commercial disputes and casualties, offshore and onshore, and with eminent domain condemnation cases for pipelines, including disputes arising from joint operating agreements, gas processing and gas measurement, mineral leases, and various conveyances of royalties and oil and gas interests. Chris has been a speaker for BIMCO and author for presentations and articles on topics including offshore drilling, coastwise trade laws, OSV charter parties, and many maritime law issues. Chris is admitted to practice in Texas, in the US District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas, in the US Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits, and in the US Supreme Court. Before practicing law, Chris sailed as a professional mariner.