The Shipping Law Blog

A practical guide to reserves, contracts, insurance and responsible short-term planning for operators working across the supply chain.

Transporting specialized cargo, particularly sensitive items such as human remains, is a delicate task that requires precision, care, and strict adherence to legal and ethical guidelines.

You often hear reference to oil rigs and platforms, and sometimes people will say, that wasn’t a platform, it was a rig; or the opposite.

The UK Standard Conditions for Towage and Other Services (UKSTC) is probably the world’s most popular towage agreement.

Most maritime countries in the world apply a two year time bar to collision claims (by virtue of some form of ratification to the Brussels Collision Conventions 1910).

Learning to sail is one of the best ways to familiarise yourself with the basics of operating a vessel on water.

We often receive queries from readers at the Shipping Law Blog, and today we received one from a non-lawyer, who had been asked to confirm whether one of their contracts contained a ‘liquidated damages clause‘.

A large Russian fish factory, the “Dalniy Vostok”, sank off the remote east coast of Russia on Wednesday 1 April 2015, resulting in a very high number of casualties.

Tugboats are one of the most easily recognised of all vessel types, and have found a popular place in the public’s eyes, even appearing in a number of Children’s books and television programmes.

Early reports are outlining an incident onboard the cruise ship “Boudicca”, which appears to have gone on fire whilst sailing off the coast of Spain as part of a Mediterranean cruise.