* The Law of Tug and Tow and Offshore Contracts 5th ed

NOT YET PUBLISHED

The Law of Tug and Tow and Offshore Contracts has established itself as a leading text and is written by Simon Rainey KC, one of the foremost shipping practitioners with unrivalled experience in the field. It is the only modern work on the law of towage and offshore vessel services, providing a comprehensive and extensively researched account of the general law coupled with a detailed clause-by-clause commentary and analysis of all the major standard contracts used in the international offshore, towage and heavylift sectors.

The book provides expert coverage of the BIMCO Towcon, Towhire, Supplytime and Heavylift forms, the full suite of BIMCO Wreck Removal forms and the BIMCO Bargehire form, as well as the ISU Salvcon and Salvhire forms in their latest versions. Given the continued use of older forms, a comparison of the previous with the latest forms is an essential characteristic of the work.

This fifth edition has been fully updated and revised to take into account the new BIMCO Towcon/Towhire 2021 contracts with a detailed analysis of the changes since the forms were last revised in 2008; the new UK Standard Conditions for Towage, revised at the end of 2024, again with a detailed analysis of the changes and updating of the old form, and also the revisions to the Bargehire form (2021) and the Wreckstage form (2024), together with a consideration of the recent Supplytime 2017 “Special Task Annexes” and the new 2021 ASVtime for accommodation support vessels, modelled on Supplytime 2017.

For all legal practitioners dealing with this section of shipping law, this book is an essential and invaluable addition to their library.

table of content

Foreword to the Fifth Edition by Sir Nigel Teare

Preface to the Fifth Edition

Prefatory note from BIMCO to the Fifth Edition

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation, Rules and Conventions

Table of Statutory Instruments

Table of International Conventions, Rules and Legislation

Table of Forms and Conditions

 

1. The contract of towage

2. The implied obligations of tug and tow

3. Standard form contracts: (i) The UK Standard Conditions for Towage and other services

4. Standard form contracts: (ii) The BIMCO forms “Towcon 2021” and “Towhire 2021”

5. Standard form contracts: (iii) The BIMCO “Supplytime 2017” Form (together with its predecessor “Supplytime 2005”; the “Windtime” and the “ASVtime” variants)

6. Standard form contracts: (iv) The BIMCO “Bargehire 2021” Form

7. Standard form contracts: (v) The BIMCO “Heavycon 2007”; “Heavyliftvoy” and “Projectcon” forms

8. Towage and Salvage

9. The ISU standard form contracts for the provision of tugs to salvors for use in salvage: “Salvcon 2005” and “Salvhire 2005”

10. The BIMCO/ISU standard form contracts for wreck removal and marine services: “Wreckhire 2010”; “Wreckstage 2024” and “Wreckfixed 2010”

11. Collisions involving tug and tow

12. Towage and limitation of liability

13. Tug and tow and general average

14. Admiralty jurisdiction