Membership

2703 Universal Trade Centre
3 Arbuthnot Road
Central
HONG KONG
Tel: +852 9867 8011
Tel : +852 9300 2860 (24 hr)
Fax: +852 2865 6571
Web: www.andrew-moore.com
Email: David.Browne@andrew-moore.com
Prinicpal Contact
David Browne

Grosser Burstah 36-38
20457 Hamburg
GERMANY
Tel: +49 40 37 50 33 90
Website: www.brand-marine.com
Email: info@brand-marine.com
Dennis Brand
Managing Director
Mobile: +49 172 40 50145
Email: dennis.brand@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 Contact:

Adrian Scales
(Partner/SCR)

Description

Founded in 1903, Brookes Bell Brookes Bell is a leading international, multi-disciplinary engineering and scientific consultancy serving the marine and energy sectors.

From humble beginnings in Liverpool, we now operate in London, Glasgow, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore and enjoy a reputation for being the ‘go to’ firm for expert witness, technical dispute resolution, forensic analysis and casualty investigation.

Our full time personnel have unrivalled expertise across a broad range of inter-related disciplines including Marine, Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Master Mariners, Naval Architects, Consulting Scientists, Fire Investigators and Metallurgists, enabling complex projects to be delivered through a single point of contact. This wealth of practical experience is combined with cutting-edge in-house technology.

We investigate, survey, troubleshoot, manage and advise on a broad range of marine and energy matters including, amongst others, SCR appointments, salvage and wreck removal projects, scientific cargo expertise, casualty investigation, litigation support, design support, superyacht services, bespoke software products and energy & marine loss adjusting.

Brookes Bell Group’s reputation for excellence is found upon integrity and proficiency and we are proud to call the world’s most eminent P&I Clubs, Shipowners, Charterers, Underwriters, Cargo Owners, Lawyers, Salvors, Shipyards, Average Adjusters and Government Departments our clients.

Principal Contacts:

Dan Schwall
(Senior Vice President)
dschwall@4barges.com

Samina Mahmood
smahmood@4barges.com

Principal Contact:

Adrian Goodger (Director)

Biesboschhaven Noord 7
4251 NL Werkendam
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31 183 40 44 30
Info@conquestoffshore.com
Principal contact
Karst van der Wiel

Principle Contact

Ashok Kumar
e: ashok@divetechuae.com

Principal Contact:
Dr. Ann Fenech
Email: ann.fenech@fenlex.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)

Friary Court
65 Crutched Friars
London EC3N 2AE, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7264 8000
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7264 8888
Website: http://www.hfw.com
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 450 lawyers across 14 offices in 11 countries. 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, dealing 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, total loss
• Salvage, towage, wreck removal and recovery
• Personal injury
• Damage to oil terminals, rigs and offshore structures
• Pollution, environmental damage and clean up
Emergency “after hours” answering service in London: +44 (0)20 7709 7702.
Principal Contacts
Partner: James Gosling Email: james.gosling@hfw.com
Partner: Andrew Chamberlain Email: andrew.chamberlain@hfw.com
Partner: Toby Stephens Email: toby.stephens@hfw.com
Partner: Martin Dalby Email: martin.dalby@hfw.com
Senior Manager: Kaare Langeland Email: kaare.langeland@hfw.com
For a full list of contact partners, please refer to HFW’s website

Contact: Nikki Zhang

Ibex House
42-47 Minories
London EC3N 1DY, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7264 3250
Email: london@loc-group.com
Website: http://www.loc-group.com
Description
London Offshore Consultants Ltd (LOC) has provided specialist marine and engineering consultancy services to the shipping and energy industries since 1979.
LOC is recognised as a leading firm of salvage and wreck removal consultants and has provided technical advice on these operations worldwide, many of which have been high profile and complex in nature. Technical advice has included salvage methodology, oil recovery, cargo recovery, oil pollution, wreck removal and towage.
LOC has attended a significant number of casualties caused by fire, explosions, grounding and collisions with fixed and floating objects. Frequently services include the provision of expert evidence in High Court or Arbitration hearings in the UK, India, Europe and the Far East.
LOC has global coverage with hub offices in London, Houston, Singapore and Dubai together with over 26 offices located around the globe.
Technical advice is provided by resident marine specialists including master mariners, marine engineers, naval architects, structural and civil engineers supported by a range of sophisticated software.
LOC has ten Special Casualty Representatives (SCRs); three in London, three in Singapore, one in Miami, one in San Francisco, one in Sydney and one in Brazil. Between them they have attended numerous salvage operations globally when the SCOPIC clause has been invoked.
Offshore Consultants Ltd (LOC) has provided specialist marine and engineering consultancy services to the shipping and energy industries since 1979.
Principal Contacts
Group Chief Executive: Andrew Squire Email: london@loc-group.com
Regional Director, Asia: Jon Walker Email: singapore@loc-group.com
Group Director: Nick Haslam Email: london@loc-group.com
Director, Singapore: Vaughan Williams Email: singapore@loc-group.com
Director, Singapore: Nicolas White Email: singapore@loc-group.com
Operations Manager, Sydney: Drew Shannon Email: perth@loc-group.com
Associate, San Francisco: David Ireland: houston@loc-group.com
Director: Abhay Damley Email: houston@loc-group.com
Associate Director, London: Ed Wollaston Email: london@loc-group.com
Consultant, Brazil: David Pockett Email: london@loc-group.com
Consultant, London: Peter Holloway Email: london@loc-group.com

Principal Contact
Henk Smith
h.smith@marinemasters.nl

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” .

45 Moorfields
London EC2Y 9AE
UK
Tel: +44 20 7330 8000
Fax: +44 20 7256 6778
Emergency contact number: +44 20 7330 8099
Description
MFB, formerly known as More Fisher Brown, is a specialist shipping law firm which was established in 1988. The firm has expanded to 26 fee earners, of whom 12 are partners, and we recently moved to a new riverside office on the north bank of the Thames.
Our Admiralty/Casualty Response team, comprising of legally qualified Master Mariners, has extensive expertise in responding to maritime casualties on a worldwide basis. The firm regularly advises P&I Clubs, other insurers and salvors in relation to all aspects of accident investigation and response, including collisions, grounding, salvage and towage, fires, wreck removal, container losses, pollution, unsafe ports and resulting general average. We offer advice on BIMCO Wreck and Lloyd’s Open Form salvage contracts, and we select and work with lawyers and experts in the relevant jurisdictions as required.
Principal Contacts
Mike Mitchell: +44 7799 898069
Helene Hunter-Davies: +44 7854 138538

Königinstr. 107
80802 Munich
GERMANY
Tel: +49 89 3891-3438
Email: sfroehlich@munichre.com
Web: http://www.munichre.com
Principal contact
Stefan Froehlich

Principal Contact
Cao Huy Phuong (Director)
huyphuong@pmarine.com.vn

Principal Contact:
Engr MD Golam Sarwar
(Managing Director)
Email: sarwar@prantik.net

Contact: Dennis Kusters

Contact: Lars Brenne

Contact: Bastian Lenge

RollDock Shipping is an owner and operator of six “semisubmersible dock vessels” and two “open wide deck carriers”. All our vessels are tramping world wide. The HQ of RollDock is based in Capelle aan den Ijssel,The Netherlands. Further office hubs are in Houston, Hamburg, Dubai, Singapore and Japan.

Contacts

Xander Schanssema, Executive Director
Tel: +31 6525 45310
E-mail: schanssema@seacontractors.com

Paul Vermeulen, Commercial Director
Tel: +31 6469 82869
Email: vermeulen@seacontractors.com

Seacontractors is a maritime service provider with a broad client base, well equipped for worldwide operations in shallow waters (up to 200m water depth). Founded in November 2004, Seacontractors operates a fleet of workboats and acts as a manager of a pool of 3rd party vessels. Being active in chartering & contracting in the towage and heavy lift industry, the Seacontractors vessels are shallow draft Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessels (AHTS) in the range of currently 20 to 70 tonnes bollard pull (BP). Seacontractors is active in the following segments: offshore energy, offshore oil & gas, offshore wind support/renewables, maritime infrastructure, port construction and dredging support works, towage, salvage and ship handling.

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: hugh.shaw@mcga.gov.uk
Website: http://www.mcga.gov.uk
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: Hugh Shaw Email: hugh.shaw@mcga.gov.uk

Stationsweg 1
9901 CP Appingedam
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31 596 620997
Fax: +31 596 650810
Email:albert@sirimarine.nl
Web:www.sirimarine.nl
Principal Contacts
Managing Director: Albert Lenting
Description
Safety of people, protection of the environment and the prevention of oil spills are the most important parts of almost every salvage operation. There is a distinct need for more information from a salvage site. In addition to motion monitoring and hull integrity assessment of the casualty, environmental data can provide important information during a salvage operation.
Our motion monitoring equipment provides the salvers with valuable information about the structural integrity and motion of the casualty. We measure, collect and interpret this motion data. If required we can provide independent advice and/or reporting to salvers, owners, authorities, P&I clubs and other parties involved. In addition to the motion monitoring equipment, we offer a “one stop shop” for related environmental services and measurements: wind and waves, currents, tide, subsea survey etc.

Pastorieplein 6/2-03
B 8020 Oostkampt
BELGIUM
Tel: +32 47 77 29 937
Fax: +32 50 32 16 86
Mob: +32 477 72 99 37
Email: stefaan@soenenbvba.be
Web: www.soenenbvba.be
Principal Contacts:
Stefaan Soenen

TWD is an engineering design consultancy actively involved in salvage, offshore wind, oil and gas and heavy civil projects world wide for the past 12 years. Our team is comprised +150 engineers, naval architects and designers, with offices in Rotterdam, London and Athens. Typically, our projects are bespoke solutions for T&I of heavy components in marine environments. TWD has been working closely together with several members of the ISU on projects like Costa Concordia, Flinterstar and Kea Trader. Throughout our active areas we design seafastenings, lifting tools, lift operations design, afloat stability analysis and ballasting procedure design. We also offer procurement and fabrication assistance services world-wide. With the recent cooperation with several well experienced salvage masters, TWD strives to further support this industry. We comply with all requirements of certifying authorities. Our in-house expertise in mechanical and structural engineering and naval architecture allows us a reputation to rapidly respond to requests in a diligent manner.

Principal Contacts:

Nigel Brunton-Reed
(Chairman)

Garth Manson
(Managing Director)

Melanie Tierney
(Administration Manager)
Email: mel@tugandosv.com

Standon House
21 Mansell Street
London E1 8AA
UK
Tel: +44 20 7237 2617
Fax: +44 20 7231 8069
Email: info@tmcmarine.co.uk
Website: http://www.tmcmarine.co.uk
Description
TMC (Marine Consultants) Ltd was established 30 years ago in London. The company has grown substantially and its technical team includes specialists in naval architecture, marine engineering and nautical science.
TMC provides technical investigation and surveying services worldwide to marine insurers, shipowners, managers and operators, law firms, P&I clubs, underwriters, trading houses, salvors and shipyards. The services include investigation work and survey assignments.
Principal Contacts
Tony Bowman Email: info@tmcmarine.co.uk

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.

Principal Contacts:

Capt Ute Hannemann
(Head of Claims – Bremen)
Tel: +49 421 59811-15
Email: uha@vht-online.de

Marcus Kück
(Head of Claims – Hamburg)
Tel: +49 40 301009-15
Email: mku@vht-online.de

The VHT (Verein Hanseatischer Transportversicherer e.V.), is an association of marine insurance companies and underwriting agents in Germany. The VHT emerged in 2000 from the 2 former associations Verein Hamburger Assecuradeure (founded in 1797) and Verein Bremer Seeversicherer e.V. (founded in 1818).
VHT’s main focus is on independent claims handling on behalf of its members and of the insured in the areas of hull & machinery and loss of hire insurance. In addition the VHT provides technical expertise on cargo risks and claims as well as marine warranty surveys. The comprehensive claims management is taken care of by the claims managers from the the Bremen and the Hamburg office. In addition a staff of own surveyors (master mariners, naval architects and marine engineers) is taking care of major cases on a worldwide basis. This does include machinery damage as well as collision and salvage cases. Furthermore the VHT is maintaining a network of more than 300 average agents worldwide for local support in case of damage.
For non-member companies the VHT is providing its services via the VHT Service GmbH.

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
Capt. Saumitr Sen (Master Mariner)
Email: ssen@wkwebster.com

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