Schjodt LLP

Maritime

Admiralty Manager

James is a Senior Marine Manger in the firm's Admiralty team. He travels widely on a variety of matters including collisions, groundings, salvage, total loss, fire and pollution incidents.

James joined the firm in 2003. Prior to that he spent eight years at sea with the Royal Navy specialising in navigation and pilotage, before coming ashore in 1996 to join the operations and claims department of a large London ship-owner. During the following seven years, James was involved with the commercial management of both tanker and dry cargo vessels and qualified as a Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (MICS).

In 2006, James moved to our Singapore office and travelled extensively in the Far East dealing with a wide variety of casualties for owner, P&I and H&M clients. James returned to the London in 2015 and remains a senior member of our international emergency response team.

Highlight mattersEver Smart – Collision off Jubail (Casualty investigation; liability/quantum; litigation up to the Supreme Court);Usolie – Collision in River Scheldt (Casualty investigation; liability/quantum; case management);MSC Madrid - Collision in River Scheldt (Casualty investigation; liability/quantum; case management);Great Aspiration – Explosion (Casualty investigation);Bulk Jupiter - total loss in the South China Sea (liquefaction) (Casualty investigation; case management);Vinalines Queen - total loss off the Philippines (liquefaction) (Casualty investigation; case management);Robert Oldendorff – Common Law salvage claim, Mozambique (Case management/arbitration);MSC Ines – Multiple collisions in Durban (Casualty investigation; liability/quantum; case management);Johannes Wulff – Grounding, River Plate - (Casualty investigation/GA/case management);Bunga Kelana 3 - Collision (and 2,500 mt crude oil pollution claim) in the Singapore Straits (Casualty investigation; liability/quantum; case management).

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