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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

When can an unexpected problem that happens part-way through an operation under a towage contract legally be said to have turned it into a salvage operation? In this article Simon Tatham looks at some borderline cases and the guiding principles to have in mind.

On November 28th 2017, over four years after their original arrest, the crew and men from the Seaman Guard Ohio were released having been acquitted of all charges by the Indian High Court in Medurai. They were driven from Chennai Central prison having won, not only what one of the men’s sisters described as their “battle […]

  Recent news in respect of the commercial maritime picture in and around Yemen culminating in the extraordinary reports of a missile attack on the Turkish flagged Ince Inebolu, has been difficult to unravel. Both sides of the proxy war are making claims and counter-claims to suit their respective narratives. An already complex environment is seemingly […]