Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering Contracts provides in-depth guidance on the agreements involved in the construction of ships, rigs and other offshore vessels and structures. It will equip marine construction lawyers with a one-stop reference on all aspects of the modern shipbuilding and offshore engineering contracts and for dealing effectively with the problems that may arise.
Key features:
- Examines the main standard form agreements used in marine construction, including the SAJ, BIMCO, the Norwegian 2000, AWES as well as LOGIC and FIDIC
- Looks at the documents required for creation of a marine construction contract e.g specifications, drawings, programmes of work
- Discusses the general rules of formation and construction of offshore construction contracts, including commonly found implied terms and limitation clauses
- Covers changes to contract terms and considerations that need to be made from contractor and buyer’s perspectives
- Covers differences in approach between standard shipbuilding and engineering contracts
- Analyses in detail all the issues surrounding time in contracts, the obligations, delay and extensions
- Looks at payment, including potential extra payments, permissible delay and damages
- Considers the rights and obligations of parties following contractual or common law termination
- Deal with guarantees, bonds and insurance
- Covers the dispute resolution frameworks used in international shipbuilding contracts, including litigation in the Commercial or Technology and Construction Court, and ADR
- Examines the growing influence of land-based construction case law, and provides in-depth commentary of relevant authorities
New to 2nd Edition:- Increases the scope of the Dispute Resolution chapter
- Delves further into matters of insurance
- Expands jurisdictional coverage to include Australia and Singapore