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Lena is Vice President, Head of Claims at Skuld Copenhagen. She has been with Skuld since 2008. She holds a Master of Laws from the University in Copenhagen. Skuld is a leading marine insurance provider and its largest line of business is P&I. The Claims team deals with a wide variety of cases from shortage claim, personal injuries to casualties etc. and they also handle matter within all aspects of FD&D.
A review of the increasingly widely used BIMCO Terms 2015 standard bunker contract began at a recent meeting held at BIMCO House.
Douglas Shoemaker is a Partner of BLANKROME Houston, and member of the Maritime Emergency Response Team (“MERT”). Douglas focuses his practice on complex maritime transactions and litigation. He has over 25 years’ experience advising clients on a wide range maritime law topics, including charter party negotiation and drafting, arbitration, vessel construction and flagging, purchase and sale, and mergers and acquisitions, personal injury, property damage, pollution, onboard investigations, navigational error, Jones Act, stevedoring accidents, cargo damage defense, and general average. He has particular experience in: • Negotiating and drafting complex maritime agreements, including vessel construction, purchase and sale; time, voyage and bareboat charter parties; towage; contracts of affreightment; bills of lading; master services agreements; general terms and conditions; indemnity and insurance provisions • Defending maritime personal injury and property damage cases in state and federal courts • Arbitrations before the Society of Maritime Arbitrators in New York, the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, the Houston Maritime Arbitrators Association, the American Arbitrators Association, and JAMS • Defending and prosecuting maritime seizure proceedings • Insurance defense and coverage • Domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, particularly concerning maritime assets and issues.
At its meeting held from 26 to 30 July 2021, the Legal Committee (LEG) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) agreed on a unified interpretation of the test for breaking a shipowner’s right to limit liability under certain IMO conventions. The committee also considered several other issues relating to the abandonment of seafarers, to Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and to the committee’s future work programme.
The recent seizures of an Iraqi oil tanker and a UK flagged ship by Iranian authorities have further increased tensions in the Gulf following earlier attacks on tankers in Fujairah and the Gulf of Oman. But what are the contractual implications for ships operating in the area?
In response to the global sulphur limit of no more than 0.50% that will come into force on 1 January 2020, BIMCO has established a subcommittee for the development of a charter party clause that will address the issues related to the new regulations.
The Honduran Maritime Authority has announced that all vessels visiting Honduran waters or requesting anchoring within the jurisdictional waters of Honduras, need to arrange stand-by marine pollution response with a local oil and HNS spills response organisation (OSRO).
