AMS and its associates provide a range of CONTINGENCY RESPONSE options to ship owners, multi-modal operators and marine insurers:

 - Deadlocked negotiations
 - Ship, cargo, and container arrests or
   detentions
 - Ship hijack (and crew kidnap)
 - Duress and crew intimidation
 - Insufficient claim-related information
 - Disposal or salvage sale of damaged
   cargo
 - Operational delays, congestion etc
   [see: Contingency response}



AMS also offers:

 -Co-ordinated strategies to combat
   persistent claims in particular ports
   (see: Claims research}

 -Port and logistics surveys / audits
  [see: Logistics projects)

 -Locates and repatriates missing containers 
  (See: Container recoveries)

 -Works with P&I correspondents to
  maximise service delivery to clients
  [see: Service audits}.

 

Helping to keep ships moving

Peter Astbury
 

Recent assignments include the  resolution of a spate of ship hijacks in Somalia and aggravated ship detentions in Yemen, an extended survey of logistics infrastructure in  post-Saddam Iraq and a survey of Mogadishu port facilities and operating procedures.

AMS has been active in Somalia, Kenya Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan,  Bangladesh, Philippines and Libya

Press reports
Lloyds List 29 November 2006:
Lloyds List 6th January 2005
Maritime Risk 23rd March 2005

Contact AMS at

Suite7, 2 Ensign Street
London, E1 8JD
T: +44 (0) 207 481 9410
M: +44 (0) 794 668 0997
response@astburymarine.com

LINKS
Office of Naval Intelligence:
'Worldwide threat
to merchant shipping'

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