Membership

ABL Group is a leading global independent energy and marine consultant working in energy and oceans to de-risk and drive the energy transition across the renewables, maritime and oil and gas sectors, offering our clients the deepest pool of world-class expertise across marine and engineering disciplines from more than 300 locations worldwide.

Headquartered in London, the ABL Group has offices in all major marine and offshore energy hubs worldwide. We have 62 offices in 38 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.

The ABL Group is a publicly listed company on the Oslo Børs (ABL).

Principal contacts:

Martin Barnes – martin.barnes@ambipar.com
Martin Lehane – martin.lehane@ambipar.com
Tharsis Guido – tharsis.guido@ambipar.com

Ambipar Response are the largest privately owned marine incident response company in the world, operating from 500 bases on 6 continents in 40 countries providing salvage support services and anti pollution services to all types of marine incident. Ambipar Response have equipment strategically located around the world to support your requirements 24/7/365.

Ambipar Response provide waste disposal routes around the world and can provide a turnkey distressed cargo management service for all cargos including hazmat cargos and containers.

Ambipar Response provide crisis management services and crisis PR services with marine industry experts who will provide incident management support on site and from multiple crisis response centers around the world.

Prinicpal Contact
David Browne
Email: David.Browne@andrew-moore.com

Principal Contact

Mark Morrow
Executive Director – Response Division (MERCOM)
Chair – National Search and Rescue Council Australia (NatSAR)
e mark.morrow@amsa.gov.au

Principal Contact:
Alex Leonard
Managing Director
Mobile: +44 7710 627960
Email: alex.leonard@brand-marine.com

Description
CASUALTY MANAGEMENT
We are ready to go whenever and wherever salvage and/or wreck removal is needed. We support our clients during the most complex casualty situations with a 24/7 emergency response service and complete aftercare. Thanks to the experience gathered from hundreds of casualty management projects and our global network we serve our clients with reliable response anywhere and at any time.
CASUALTY/DAMAGE INVESTIGATION
The team at brand MARINE CONSULTANTS has experience from its participation in hundreds of casualty investigations and damage surveys. This gives us the ability to investigate the cause of any marine and/or offshore casualty. We are ready to go 24/7 and are fully prepared to travel worldwide. We provide our clients with high quality and “straight to the point” reports that cover repair costs, root causes and regress opportunities.
We are prepared to advise our clients during the aftercare of a casualty. Our global network allows us to provide our clients with fast response surveys.
MARINE/OFFSHORE OPERATIONS
At brand MARINE CONSULTANTS we are prepared to support and advise our clients during complex and unique operations. This service includes risk assessment and risk management that comes hand-in-hand with an overview of technical and commercial topics. It is our goal to be a part of our client’s decision-making process, hereby ensuring high-quality service and positive results.
BUSINESS CONSULTING
The team at brand MARINE CONSULTANTS has experience in assisting new businesses and restructuring existing businesses. We are in a position to support and to advise our clients during the complex process of starting or developing a new business within the Marine and Offshore sectors.“

Principal Contacts
Craig English

Description
Established in the 1970s, Briggs Marine and Environmental Services supply services including; vessel charter, salvage and wreck removal, oil and gas terminal operations, environmental consultancy and International 24 hour emergency oil spill response service.
Offering a holistic service and innovative cost effective salvage solutions our expanding and diverse fleet of vessels and services complement our marine salvage solutions, including; wreck intervention and removal, towage, emergency salvage, oil removal, wreck survey and management, diving and subsea services.
Our ability to immediately respond can mean the difference between a dry or wet salvage. Salvage services and our highly trained oil spill response personnel deal with over 500 incidents a year covering industrial, coastal and offshore installations. We provide a rapid and cost effective 24 hours a day, 365 days a year service through our unrivaled combination of response bases and stockpiles of well-maintained oil spill response equipment.
We are also a leading international provider of response training (accredited by the Nautical Institute on behalf of the MCA, DECC and IMO), with prestigious clients including UK and European government agencies, International oil & gas companies, power generation companies and maritime organisations.

Principal Contact:

Captain Gauthier Dupire
gauthier.dupire@intradef.gouv.fr

Contact:

Sylvia Tervoort, Project Manager / Sr Salvage Master
e: st@cstarconsultancy.com

Dali Underwater Construction Group Co., Ltd(“DALI”)was registered in China in 1996. After development of 20 years,DALI has made great progress in every aspect and taking the lead in the salvage offshore engineering enterprises in China.

DALI started its business in HONG KONG and Middle East from 2014,then expanded it to Southeast Asia in 2017,and gradually expends the business worldwide.

DALI focused on the safety in production and the strengthening of the management.DALI has successfully completed more than 100 major underwater projects,which spread all over China coastal areas and overseas.With the comprehensive ability to salvage either the disassembled wreck or the integrated wreck,the Company is taking the lead in the private-owned salvage enterprises in China.

Principal Contact:

Sietse Bruinsma, Operational Director
e: SBR@deepbv.nl

Diving Austral Chile SpA specializes in offering integral solutions in underwater services, covering the areas of commercial and salvage diving, underwater robotics and consulting. We are dedicated to maintenance works, dismemberment and refloating of structures, besides operating in confined spaces. In the field of robotics, we carry out detailed inspections of outfalls, ships and docks, as well as seabed cleaning. We complement our services with specialized diving consultancy, providing our clients with expert advice for the efficient planning and execution of their underwater projects.

Scottstraat 12, 4562 BH Hulst
The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 610994600
email: info@dutchmarinebv.com
Web: http://www.dutchmarinebv.com
Principal Contact
Paul Verschure

Principal Contact:
Dr. Ann Fenech
Email: ann.fenech@fenechlaw.com

Description
Fenech and Fenech Advocates is Malta’s oldest law firm. It was founded in 1891. Over the years it has gone from strength to strength, offering services for private clients and multinationals. As a multidisciplinary law firm, all types of legal issues and disputes are dealt with, including shipping and international corporate matters.
Fenech and Fenech Advocates is the only law firm on the island with a designated Marine Litigation Department. This department handles at least 75% of all shipping casualties that take place around Malta and the same proportion of all shipping casualties involving Maltese registered vessels worldwide.
The Marine Litigation Department offers 24-hour service, with immediate access to other professionals, such as naval architects, marine engineers, fire experts and overseas lawyers.

Principal Contact
Ms Lucy Lu (PA to General Manager)

Offices also in Paris, Rouen, Brussels, Geneva, Piraeus, Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth & Sao Paulo.

Description

Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) is a global law firm with over 600 lawyers working across offices in Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. We specialise in advising clients in the aviation, banking, commodities, construction, insurance/reinsurance, logistics, mining, offshore, energy, oil & gas, ports & terminals, shipping, super-yachts and private aircraft sectors, specifically.

HFW’s shipping lawyers are listed in the Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories as a top-tier firm for shipping work, winning numerous global awards. We provide a comprehensive service to the global shipping and offshore business community, and have over 140 lawyers worldwide specialising in all aspects of maritime law. HFW has one of the largest Admiralty and Crisis Management practices in the world, serviced by over 35 lawyers including 15 ex mariners (of whom 11 are master mariners) based in our offices across the globe. The team deals with the full range of legal issues that arise from collisions, groundings, pollution, fire and explosion, salvage, wreck removal and towage.
The firm’s casualty response teams of lawyers and mariners operate 24 hours a day on a worldwide basis. Maritime crisis management is an area of work where the firm has developed a leading reputation.

Particular areas of expertise within the field of marine casualty work include:

Collisions, fire and explosions
General average, marine insurance and total loss claims
Salvage, towage, wreck removal, decommissioning and disposal of hazardous waste management and disposal
Personal injury
Damage to oil terminals, rigs and offshore structures
Pollution, environmental damage and clean up resulting from oil and non-oil pollutants including cargo debris
Complex Environment dealing with maritime security issues arising from kidnap and ransom, hijackings and the detention of vessels, cargo and personnel by hostile and/or politically motivated groups
Cyber Security advising on the management of cyber risks both pre and post cyber breach as well as the recovery of funds resulting from mandate fraud, denial of service (ransomware) and data theft incidents

Principal Contacts

Partner: Andrew Chamberlain Email: andrew.chamberlain@hfw.com
Partner: Dominic Johnson Email: dominic.jonhson@hfw.com
Partner: Richard Neylon Email: richard.neylon@hfw.com
Partner: Tom Walters Email: tom.walters@hfw.com
Partner: Jean Koh Email: jean.koh@hfw.com
Legal Director: Victor Fenwick Email: victor.fenwick@hfw.com
Partner: Claire Womersley Email: claire.womersley@hfw.com
Partner: Mike Ritter Email: mike.ritter@hfw.com

For a full list of contact partners, please refer to HFW’s website or click here.

The company TUGS CHATZIGAVRIIL is a family company, which was founded in 1993 in Alexandroupoli as a small enterprise with big however prospects and objectives.
Beginning from the harbour of Alexandroupoli, which the company serves exclusively, she accomplished it advances also in the towages of open sea inside and except Greece as also
and in Salvage successfully.

Allocating, the unique tug boat of salvage for open seas in all the Northern Aegean, which is found on 24 hours base available, it ensures thus direct intervention whenever and where exists need.

The company elected itself shortly in the space of benefit of shipping services, based on the suitable equipment, the sufficient know-how, the continuously accumulated long-lasting experience in the towages and rescues of boats and naturally in a very well educated personnel.

With stations at Alexandoupoli in Greece, we are able to rapidly respond to any emergency, along with performing routine operations, in the areas of The Mediterranean, the Black and the Red Sea. Our Operation Office is manned around-the-clock,24 hours per day, 365 days a year, ensuring reliable, effective and efficient port operations. We are ready to handle any Salvage request with an immediate response guarantee.

We are the Insurance brokers for a number of ISU members and would assert that we probably have more experience in insuring salvage and wreck removal operations than any other insurance broker in the world: David Smith and Quentin Brooksbank have placed insurances on behalf of ISU members for over 100 salvage and wreck removal cases including of recent note the wreck removal of the “Costa Concordia”, “M/V Smart”, “Kea Trader” and the Norwegian frigate “Helga Ingstadt” .

Shipowners, ship operators, ship agents, shipbrokers, commodities traders, ship charterers.

Contact: Steve Storey

Principal Contact
Sofia Falida, International Business Relations Director
Tel: +30 2104060081
Mob: +306942555746
Email: s.falida@polygreen.eco

Emergency Response Services / Oil Spill Response Services (fleet consisted of OSR Skimmer Vessels, Supply Vessels & OSR equipment), OSR Bases in Greece, Cyprus, UAE & Mauritius, Tank cleaning services, Inventory of Hazardous Materials, Distressed Cargo Management, Hazardous Waste Management, Asbestos Removal Services, Port Reception Facilities, Production of Alternative Fuels & Raw Materials for the Cement Plants, Rehabilitation of old industrial sites, Soil Remediation, Sludge Treatment

Principle Contact

Hu Zhi Hui (General Manager)
e: hzh@qmccl.com

The Broadgate Tower
20 Primrose Street
London EC2A 2RS
Tel: +44 (0)20 3116 3000
Fax: +44 (0)20 3116 3999
Website: http://www.reedsmith.com
Offices in: Hong Kong, Piraeus, Sao Paolo, Abu Dhabi, Paris, Beijing
Description
The Shipping Group’s Admiralty Department is one of the leading “wet” practices, a number of the team being ex-Master Mariners. The international client base includes owners, hull underwriters, P&I Clubs, salvors and charterers.
We have been involved in many well known cases (including the Selendang Ayu, Hanjin Pennsylvania and Kariba/Tricolor). We advise on technical disputes, jurisdictional matters and disputes arising from collisions and groundings, fires, total losses, oil and HNS pollution, salvage and limitation, as well as providing casualty management services.
The Department operates a 24-hour casualty information line and members of the Casualty Response Team are available to travel at a moment’s notice.
We work regularly with independent surveyors and other experts in most maritime countries. We are able to advise clients on, and instruct, appropriate professionals at short notice. We also involve, as and when necessary, our own overseas offices with Admiralty law experience, to ensure proper co-ordination and handling of the case simultaneously in two or more countries.
Principal Contacts
Richard Gunn Email: rgunn@reedsmith.com

Principal Contacts:

Michael Fitzpatrick, President & CEO
Email: mfitzpatrick@ral.ca

Lawren Best, Director of Design Development
Email: lbest@ral.ca

Dave Christoper, Senior Marine Engineer
Email: dchristopher@ral.ca

Description

Robert Allan Ltd.’s business is centred on the design of commercial working marine vessels of all types, with a particular focus on the international tugboat market. In addition, we design fireboats, research vessels, crewboats, barges, Government service vessels (such as icebreakers and nav-aids tenders), shallow-draft vessels of all types for inland transportation, and a diverse range of specialized craft for almost any purpose. The company also provides expertise in analyzing technical and financial aspects of a broad range of marine operations and marine systems design.

Robert Allan Ltd. is committed to providing the highest possible standards of independent professional marine design and engineering services to our valued clients, thereby creating innovative working vessels that embody efficiency, durability and performance. We are devoted to making the vessels built to our designs as safe and efficient as possible for the crews that work on them, and for the people who own them.

Primary Contact:

Capt William Wittich
tug@seawolfmarinegroup.com
(201)628-5410

Mr Steven Reiss
steve@seawolfmarinegroup.com
(201) 852-1788
+1 201 628 5410 (mobile)

Sea Wolf Marine Group includes: SEA WOLF MARINE TRANSPORTATION, SEA WOLF MARINE INC., WITTICH SALVAGE, LLC.

Contact:

Paul Vermeulen, Commercial Director
e: commercial@seacontractors.com

Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Bay 1/14 Spring Place
105 Commercial Road
Southampton
Hampshire SO15 1EG
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 2380 329517
Fax: +44 (0) 2380 329321
Email: stephan.hennig@sosrep.gov.uk
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/maritime-and-coastguard-agency
Description
The post of Secretary of State’s Representative (SOSREP) was established as part of the UK Government’s response to Lord Donaldson’s review of salvage, intervention and command and control.
On behalf of the Secretary of State, the SOSREP oversees, controls and, if necessary, intervenes to exercise “ultimate command and control”. He acts in the overriding interest of the UK in salvage operations in UK waters involving vessels or fixed platforms, where there is significant risk of pollution. Adoption of this approach represents an international first for the UK.
Whilst completely independent, the SOSREP is based at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) Headquarters in Southampton and relies upon the resources provided by the agency. The MCA is responsible throughout the UK for implementing the Government’s maritime safety policy. This includes co-ordinating search and rescue at sea (through Her Majesty’s Coastguard) and ensuring that ships meet UK and international safety rules. The MCA works to prevent the loss of lives at the coast and at sea, to ensure that ships are safe and to prevent coastal pollution.
Principal Contacts
SOSREP: Stephan Hennig Email: stephan.hennig@sosrep.gov.uk

Mailing address:

P.O. Box 1376 Vika
N-0114 Oslo, Norway

Principal Contact:

Andreas Øgrey
Senior Vice President, Global Head Casualty and Major Claims
e-mail: andreas.ogrey@skuld.com

Description:

Skuld is a world-leading marine insurance provider with a strong financial position and an ‘A’ rating with Standard & Poor’s. We cater to the needs of shipowners, the offshore and energy sector, charterers and traders and the superyacht community. Skuld was established in 1897 as a P&I club for Scandinavian shipowners. Since then, we have grown into a diversified marine insurer and now offer bespoke covers through Skuld P&I and Skuld Hull. With headquarters in Oslo and a worldwide office network of around 300 highly skilled employees, we provide our members and clients with service and competence they can rely on, 24 hours a day.

Founded in 1984, Southern Ropes is one of the largest manufacturers of high-quality synthetic ropes. We cater to an array of markets, including Commercial Marine, Leisure Marine, Industrial, Mining and The Armed Forces.

We manufacture twisted and braided ropes to standard and custom specifications, extruding polypropylene and polyethylene yarns on site.

Southern Ropes is at the forefront of rope innovation, combining the latest rope-making technologies with strong and durable materials like Stealth Fibre® UHMwPE, Vectran®, Technora® and Zylon®. Our world-renowned ropes conform to British (BS), European (EN) and South African (SABS) standards, with the entire company ISO 9001:2015 accredited.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7488 0911
Fax: +44 (0)20 7480 5806
Email: info@shipownersclub.com
Website: http://www.shipownersclub.com

Description

The Shipowners’ P&I Club is the only member of the International Group to focus on smaller and more specialised vessels. The Club has a particular specialisation in offshore risks generally, including the cover of towage and salvage liabilities.

Principal Contacts

Chief Executive: Simon Peackock
Email: simon.peacock@shipownersclub.com

TT Club is the established market-leading independent provider of mutual insurance and related risk management services to the international transport and logistics industry. Our services include specialist underwriting, claims management and risk and loss management advice, supported by a global office network. Our mission is to make the global transport and logistics industry safer, more secure and more sustainable.

The Club was established in 1968. We currently have more than 1300 Members, spanning owners and operators, ports and terminals, and logistics companies, working across maritime, road, rail, and air. Our Members range from some of the world’s largest logistics operators to smaller, bespoke companies managing similar risks.

TT Club is managed by Thomas Miller.

Governmental recognized and certified Marine Chemists/Chemical Analysts and Surveyors. General marine chemist services, issuing mandatory Health & Safety Certificates for tankers, global HSE emergency response to the salvage industry with respect to hazardous cargo incidents. On site salvage services to a salvage contractor including: sampling and chemical analysis of firefighting/waste/scavenge water and other liquids. Hot-work and safe entry permits, toxic/flammable atmosphere/gas testing, witness analysis and communication between shore laboratories and salvors. Contingency planning after marine accidents with dangerous cargoes. World wide deployment of correctly dressed and equipped certified HazMat Team(s) and salvage marine chemists.

The W K Webster group provides a total marine claims handling service to insurers, brokers, re-insurers or self-insured owners of cargo or vessels worldwide. Through wholly-owned offices in London, Singapore and New York we are able to assist our principals, and their customers within their respective time zones, on a round the clock basis.
We deal with all aspects of a claim, from physical survey through to determining liability and quantum, alternative disposal and recovery from the party responsible for the damage. Through our network of offices we ensure that each aspect is handled at the most appropriate location without the need to brief a third party. We focus on a commercial, cost-effective solution.
Cargo surveys are performed by our subsidiary International Surveyors & Adjusters, with five offices in the UK as well as Singapore, Rotterdam and Antwerp. Another subsidiary, Seawise Maritime Services, deals with hull surveys from offices in London and Singapore. Our surveyors travel worldwide at short notice. Dedicated subsidiaries in the UK handle carrier’s liability claims for P&I clubs, liability insurers and transport providers.

We retain a worldwide network of cargo and hull survey agents to provide local assistance and inspection. All claims handling and recovery work is concentrated in our own regional offices, to ensure that all technical and legal aspects are observed and consistently applied. The group is a partnership, free from external shareholder influence.

Principal Contacts
Mark Dawson (Associate Director)
Email: mdawson@wkwebster.com

Martin Terrell (Director)
Email: mterrell@wkwebster.com.sg