Emerging Incident: Fred Olsen Cruise Ship “Boudicca” on fire off the coast of Spain (25 January 2015)

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. Whether the remains are

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. So why do the terms

The UK Standard Conditions for Towage and Other Services (UKSTC) is probably the world’s most popular towage agreement. The 1986 version is the latest one and probably the most popular.

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). In other

Learning to sail is one of the best ways to familiarise yourself with the basics of operating a vessel on water. Many of the terms draw across to the shipping

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