The shipping market is characterized by high fluctuation range and obvious periodicity, which affects not only the fleet planning of shipowners but also the charterers ability to meet their obligations. When the market ...

The main objective of this thesis is to analyze how different jurisdictions conduct these environmental impact assessments. Not only are they crucial components of the planning stage of oil companies, these studies are ...

The thesis consists of two parts which are closely interlinked together. Firstly, there is a description of the successful safety regimes in offshore oil and gas operations in Norway and the UK. These two offshore safety ...

Shipbuilding, being one of the oldest industries in the world, consists of more than just of building a ship. Many yards around the world design, build, test and repair ships. And even one project to build a ship consists ...

With Arctic sea ice melting at rates faster than ever before, global climate change is opening up the polar region with its vast hydrocarbon resources to increased oil & gas exploration, exploitation and navigation. The ...

This thesis highlights legal challenges connected to the use of Private Contracted Armed Security Personnel (PCASP) on board merchant vessels. Use of PCASP became relevant in the mid-2000s due to the increase of piracy ...

One of the main functions of a commercial contract has always been to allocate risk. This is true of contracts used in almost any industry or commercial enterprise. The oil and gas industry however, presents a unique set ...

It is within the framework of the discipline called tort law that the rules of compensation for damages are to be found. The Swedish general tort law is subsidiary, which means that laws that in the light of the question ...

The thesis presents the main aspects connected with the knock-for-knock clauses used in the offshore sector and focus on how these provisions are treated in the United States (US) and Norwegian legal systems. The ...

GUARDCON is a standardised contract designed for use between shipowners and private maritime security providers, published in March 2012 by BIMCO, a non-governmental organisation made up of members from various participants ...

Marine salvage is a fascinating area of the maritime industry and involves aspects that are unique compared to similar undertakings ashore. It is different because ashore there are rescue services available at any time, ...

This text analyses the requirements laid down in the contracts of insurance of Norwegian and English P&I clubs. Such a comparative analysis provides an understanding of the convergence and divergence of the rules applied ...

Under the jurisdiction of the EU competition law, the IG has been through two completed investigations, which were recorded as the 1985 Commission Decision and the 1999 Commission Decision. The Pooling Agreement and the ...

The present master thesis deals with jurisdictional issues of Georgian and EU Member States’ national courts on private international maritime litigations involving Georgian and EU elements. The paper discusses on several ...

The topic of this thesis is to examine identifiction problems in marine insurance related to assured and his servants together with a focus on shipowning entities and shipmanagement organisation. For the sake of simplicity, ...

The thesis focuses on carrier's liability for delay in United Nations Convention of Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, as known as the Rotterdam Rules, in comparison with other related international conventions and ...

Tradable green certificates (TGCs) are market-based instruments allowing for flexibility in compliance with a quota obligation under a support scheme in favour of renewable electricity generation. Under a certificate system, ...