We were retained to assist ship operators and their lawyers in their attempt to exercise difficult liens for unpaid hire and the costs of discharging cargoes in the Middle East and the EU. The lawyers acted to protect the ship owners’ formal positions; we supported these actions on the front line and provided a channel…
Ships carrying steel reinforcing bars and plywood to a port on the Arabian Sea were, for several years, routinely subjected to bogus, multi-million Dollar cargo claims by a local cartel of importers. We worked with the local embassy of a flag state to successfully persuade the Provincial Governor to make a decisive intervention that stopped…
At the end of the war-lord era in Somalia, Arundel Resolution team members were retained by public and private parties to make front line assessments of the surviving capabilities of ports in Mogadishu, El Maan, Kismayo and Hobyo, and to recommend fast infrastructure upgrades to support food security initiatives and boost local employment. We made…
We were retained to mentor and support an inexperienced negotiating team in a developing nation through multiple rounds of negotiation with a powerful group of distant water fishing nations to determine the terms of access for the group’s fishing boats to the developing nation’s own Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ). Giving them a more structured negotiating…
Since 2012, we have continued to deliver comprehensive assistance to ship owners confronted with ship hijack and crew kidnap situations in the Gulf of Guinea. This includes a fully compliant local operation of experienced representatives for on-the-ground logistics, which we manage both from the ship owner’s Emergency Response Team and through our own people that we…
We were working onshore and offshore Somalia for various P&I Clubs, UN agencies and super yachts before the spate of Somali piracy began. We were, therefore, well placed and able to provide informed local advice and comprehensive negotiation support to many ship owners and flag states who, in the years that followed, had to cope…
