Chris Ulfers
The many vessels that traverse U.S. waters—each inland and coastal—require vital monetary funding on the time of building and through their lifecycles. The contracts that govern the development and subsequent upkeep and restore of those vessels typically have thousands and thousands of {dollars} at stake.
To focus on the numerous penalties if one thing have been to go fallacious, Chris Ulfers, accomplice within the Maritime Practice Group of Jones Walker, will go over the vital elements of vessel building and ship restore contracts on the inaugural Ship Repair USA occasion in New Orleans, La., on June 20. During his presentation, Ulfers may also define key ideas that needs to be addressed from the angle of each the shipyard and the vessel proprietor.
Meet Chris Ulfers
Ulfers focuses his observe on maritime legislation and frequently advises and represents purchasers in maritime, regulatory, and business issues. He has intensive expertise in marine finance and the negotiation and drafting of all kinds of maritime contracts, together with vessel buy and sale agreements, bareboat and time charters, grasp and spot towage agreements, grasp service agreements, barge fleeting and mooring agreements, marine-related entry agreements, terminal agreements, and ship restore contracts.
Ulfers additionally has expertise dealing with a wide range of business disputes within the maritime, vitality, and different industries, together with points associated to insurance coverage protection, indemnity disputes, building litigation, maritime lien disputes, vessel seizures and attachments, maritime and aviation personal-injury instances, property harm instances, and vessel collisions and allisions.
Registration for Ship Repair USA is open, with charges rising on June 2.
Ship Repair USA
Ship Repair USA is the one ship restore occasion in North America that brings collectively shipyards, ship restore amenities, proprietor/operators, suppliers and others. It shall be a sister present to Marine Log FERRIES and TTB (Tugs, Towboats & Barges). The occasion will embody a a number of matters hosted by the Military Sealift Command, with a particular give attention to smaller shipyards and restore yards for its business enterprise and can go over ship restore contracting, planning projections and extra. The Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers (SNAME) has additionally partnered with the occasion.
The convention contains an expo the place you possibly can uncover services and products that can assist you put your plans into motion.
Sponsorships accessible
Sponsorships for the occasion are nonetheless accessible.Ship Repair USA sponsorship packages supply branded classes, lead era, customized e-mail deployments, occasion excursions and extra. For extra info, contact David Harkey at 212.620.7223 (workplace) or 973.563.0109 (cell) or dharkey@sbpub.com.
As of now, the next firms are Ship Repair USA sponsors:
- Alabama Shipyard (Cocktail Reception)
- W&O (Luncheon)
- On Site Alignment (Gold)
- The Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers (Associate Partner)
- Tork Systems (Silver & Lanyards)
- Conrad Shipyards (Silver)
- ABS (Silver)
- Bayonne Dry Dock (Silver)
- Jones Walker (Silver)
- Electronic Marine Systems (Silver)
- SSI (Silver)
- Crowley (Bronze)
- All American Paint (Bronze)
- Kongsberg (Bronze)
- CommercePayments (Bronze)
- Gulf Copper (Bronze)
- Louisiana Cat (Bronze)
- Sewart Supply (Bronze)
- Platypus Marine Inc. (Bronze)
- Separator Spares & Equipment (Bronze)
- Simplex Americas (Bronze)
- SKF Cooper (Bronze)
- Tnemec (Bronze)
