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NEWS & KNOWLEDGE Tatham & Co joins Maritime London September 2019 Marking the firm’s support for Maritime London, on 4 September Simon Tatham presented a paper on legal services to delegates invited by the UK Government’s Department for International Trade. Taking place at the Baltic Exchange, this was one of many meetings organised around London International Shipping Week and was coordinated by Maritime London. Presenting […] CONTINUE READING	Stephen Askins’ Webinar on tanker security in the new ‘tanker wars’ » Stephen Askins along with Intertanko’s Phillip Belcher, UK Chamber of Shipping’s David Balston, BIMCO’s Jakob Larsen engaged in candid discussion on present and future tanker safety and security issues in the wake of the Stena Impero and Grace 1 seizures. Topics discussed: The threat. Implications for ports who choose to receive Adrian Darya 1 (ex-Grace 1). […]
	Iran undertakes not to let Grace 1 cargo be delivered to EU Sanctioned entity » Iran undertakes not to let Grace 1 cargo be delivered to EU Sanctioned entity. Confusion surrounds the last minute US intervention in the Grace 1 case. The matter came back before the Supreme Court today under the Gibraltar sanctions legislation. Th eSupreme Court seems to have suggested that no application was made (or at least […]
Could BMP 5 and the use of a citadel have prevented the capture of the Stena Impero? » The UK Sunday papers rightly are questioning why “we” wern’t prepared for the Iranian reaction to the detention of the Grace 1 (language matters here – Gibraltar have lawfully “detained” the Grace 1 and Iran have unlawfully “captured” the Stena Impero). There is no legal equivalence between the two events. Indeed Lawrence Freeman asks the […]	NEWS & KNOWLEDGE Grace 1 – Gibraltar passes new law to seize ship and exposes “British” tankers to reciprocal action by Iran July 2019 Image Source: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/panama-says-it-cut-iran-oil-tanker-from-boat-registry-after-terrorism-alert The reaction of the Iranian government to the boarding of the Grace 1off Gibraltar has been swift and direct reciprocal action has been threatened against “British” ships. Whether that is British flagged as opposed to British managed or operated ships, is unclear. But in the light of the recent attacks on tankers in […] CONTINUE READING
Stephen Askins listed in latest edition of ‘The Best Lawyers’ » Tatham & Co partner Stephen Askins has been listed in the latest edition of ‘The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom’ for his working in shipping.
NEWS & KNOWLEDGE The “Renos” – the Supreme Court rules that SCOPIC charges are not to be taken into account in calculating a constructive total loss June 2019 There were two issues for the Supreme Court to decide in the Renos.[1] The first was whether, under section 60(2)(ii) of the Marine Insurance Act 1906 (“the Act”), the “cost of repairing the damage” to the vessel in the computation of a constructive total loss (CTL) included expenditure already incurred before the notice of abandonment was […] CONTINUE READING	Front Altair and Kokuka Courageous Incidents » In light of the FRONT ALTAIR and KOKUKA COURAGEOUS incidents this week it is likely that the remaining handful of international salvors will now up their presence in and resources from the UAE, so as to respond in the event of further attacks. Some may mobilise under responder agreements but where, as in the case […]
	My Song – Reaching for the reputational high notes? » One can only imagine the owner’s visceral shock of seeing the My Song wallowing in distress in the Atlantic after going overboard as deck cargo from the yacht-carrying cargo vessel. Yacht transportation allowing safe repositioning of vessels between seasons is big business. Losing such a high profile yacht is a crisis in any ones books and […]