Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering Contracts

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.

• 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

Chapter 1: The nature of an offshore construction contract
Chapter 2: Introduction to the standards forms
Chapter 3: General Principles of contract
Chapter 4: Payment
Chapter 5: Performance
Chapter 6: Change
Chapter 7: Time for delivery and completion
Chapter 8: Termination
Chapter 9: Guarantees, bonds and insurance
Chapter 10: Passing of title, risk, liens and delivery up
Chapter 11: Dispute resolution