RADM Linda Fagan will keynote the Maritime Salvage Conference & Expo
AUGUST 27, 2015—Shipowners, regulators, insurers, attorneys, and salvage professionals will collect on the 2015 Maritime Salvage Conference & Expo in Stamford, CT, this fall to debate real-world classes and practices of salvage, wreck removing, firefighting, and environmental response. The convention, set for September 22-24, will probably be kicked off by RADM Linda Fagan, Commander, First Coast Guard District. Admiral Fagan oversees over 2,000 miles of shoreline alongside the U.S. Northeast that embody the busy ports of Boston, New York, and Newark. Prior to project to NORTHCOM, she served because the Commander, Sector New York, the Coast Guard’s largest shore-based operational unit.
During a session sponsored by the Maritime Law Association of the United States on September 22, Jason Harris, Esq., Partner at Welch & Harris LLP, who chairs the MLA’s Salvage Committee, will present an replace on current notable salvage case regulation. The MLA’s Salvage Committee advises its membership on worldwide and home authorized developments regarding business salvage, wreck removing, treasure salvage and associated marine insurance coverage points. It additionally assists in formulating the affiliation’s coverage on rising points because the UNESCO Convention on Underwater Cultural Heritage, Salvage Convention, and Places of Refuge.
During the session, Harris will probably be joined by Thomas H. Belknap, Jr., Esq., Partner, Blank Rome LLP, who will deal with the crucial challenge of “1989 Salvage Convention.” Responder immunity, a key challenge for responders, can even be mentioned. The two predominant issues for responders that got here out of the Deepwater Horizon incident is that plaintiffs sued them below normal maritime regulation on account of private harm attributable to the publicity to the spilled oil and the dispersants which have been authorised to be used every day by the U.S. Federal On-Scene Coordinator below the National Contingency Plan; and naked allegations by plaintiffs of gross negligence and willful misconduct associated to the response actions with out having to offer any underlying details to help such allegations.
Among the opposite highlights on the convention, Lindsay Malen, CEO, Malen Maritime, will element the biggest maritime salvage operation ever undertaken when she discusses “Salvaging the Costa Concordia: A Closer Look.” Righting, elevating and towing the large cruise ship was a large enterprise that broke new floor within the salvage business. Malen will probably be one in every of three panelists that can deal with varied facets of Environmental Salvage. She will probably be joined by Dr. Dagmar Schmidt Etkin, President, Environmental Research Consulting, who will current “Weighing the Cost” of environmental salvage. She will probably be adopted by Alfred J. Kuffler, Esq., Partner, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, who will talk about Places of Refuge.
On September 23, Ernesto Fernandez, Senior Consultant, Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP), Organization of American States (OAS) will current opening remarks to start out the second day of the Conference. CIP promotes port growth and greatest port practices within the Americas area. The group additionally serves to share data and promote cooperation between the ports all through the Americas.
Another notable presentation will made by Sam Kendall-Marsden, Syndicate Director, Charles Taylor and Co. Limited, who will communicate on the “AMADEO 1 Case Study.” The AMADEO 1 was a RO/RO passenger vessel that grounded and capsized off of the coast of Chile in 2014.
With their three-day move, delegates can even have a alternative of sitting in on one in every of two workshops on September 24. One workshop will probably be a particular Maritime Casualty Scenario that includes a tabletop train produced by the ASA and the opposite will probably be a HECSALV/POSSE Training Seminar produced by Herbert ABS Software Solutions.
For extra particulars on the agenda, registrations and sponsorships, click here. A ten (10%) % low cost will probably be supplied all OAS-CIP members and NAMEPA members.
