GALVAN ABOGADOS

EXPERIENCE

“ZHONG SHAN” Salvage, Barbate (Cadiz), May 1986
“VELÁZQUEZ” Salvage, general average and fire, Vigo Estuary, 1989.
“POINTE DU CASTEL” Salvage, Cape Finisterre, 21st November, 2002.
“AZZAHARA” Salvage, Strait of Gibraltar, 2nd December 2005.
“LEOPARD” Almeria , 2008
“MARTIPRIDE” Gallipoli, March, 2008
“OCEAN PEGASUS”, Río de la Plata 21st February, 2013.
“VERTIGO GAME “, Ibiza, 2018.
“CORSO I”, Palma de Mallorca, 2020.

I. ON SALVAGE

II. ON COLLISIONS

“OTERO LAGE” / “ARTEMIS” Collision and shipwreck in the North Sea, 1989.
“ANGIACHO” / “DON BANG III” Collision in international High Seas 1996.
“FINPINNE” Collision Bilbao 18 March 2000.
“GUAJIRA” / “NEMEA”. Collision, Strait of Gibraltar, August 2002.
“ASSEBURG” Sunk and shipwreck, 26th October 2002.
“ATLAS” / “AVEMAR” Collision, Strait of Gibraltar 28th November 2006.
“JAUME II” Collision Coastguard, Tanger 2 January 2009
“LE SHENG”/“CAPE MED” 29 May 2014.
“BEST UNITY”/SOUTHER EXPLORER” Singapore, 12 September 2014.
“TERRY VII”/”TROENCE MAERSK”, Porto, January 2011-March 2020.

PENELOPE” Leixoes wooden cargo 1994.
“MENDIONDO” Stranding and claim against British Port Authorities for lack of draught. ADR, London, March 2000.
“MARJA”. Gijón 2005.
“SIBLEY”. Coruña 2008.
“BETANZOS”. Lisboa, March 2018.
“DEIMOS”. Cabo Verde, November 2020.

III.ON GROUNDING, STRANDING
TOTAL LOSS

IV. GENERAL AVERAGE

“ALALMA” General Average. Fire on board Callao, Bilbao 1983.
“ANGLIA” Salvage and General Average, paper cargo damage by wetting, Brest as Port of Refuge, 1993.
“PLATITERA”. General Average. Unseaworthiness, Silver River, May 1996
“REBORN” General Average Kalamata Temporary Repairs, Bjela, 11
April, 2003.
“BULNES” General Average Brest 2004.
“TERRY TRES” General Average. Port of Refuge Vigo 2008.
“VINLAND SAGA” Bilbao-Hamburgo, 2008.
“SIBLEY”. La Coruña 2008.
“BELUGA FOUNDATION” Bremen, 2009.
“FARUK KAAN”. Atlantic Ocean, 2012.
“BLUEMENAU”, Necochea (Argentina) / Liverpool, 6th November 2012.
“MARIOLINA DI CARLINI” Freetown, Sierra Leona 2013
“BEST UNITY” Singapore Port of Refuge, 12th September 2014.
“MAERSK HONAM” Fire on board 6th March 2018.
“BALTIC MARINER”. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2019.

MV “SAILMAN”. Steel coils damaged by sea water, Aviles 1994.
“MEHMET BESIR AGMA” Arrest Damages in a sunflower seed cargo due to FIRE caused by spontaneous combustion, Corunna, May 1997.
“HIUNDAY” Arrest Flooding damages to car cargo, Santander, August 1999.
Theft of values carried by a security company, 13th February 2003.
“TOLTECA” Faulty stowage. Rio Haina – Bilbao, October 2003.
“JULIA ISABEL” Arrest damage by flooding in a calcium ammonic nitrate cargo, Bilbao 3rd November 2003.
MV “TATJANA”. Arrest Steel coils damages caused by faulty stowage, Cartagena, 23rd January 2004.
“JORDAN II”, Jindal Iron/ Islamic Solidarity Construction of “FIOS” Clauses, House of Lords, England, December 2004.
“ARGONAUT” Bilbao / Savanah. Faulty stowage. 2005
“ILYA” Listed due to mass of water entering a wood cargo, Corunna, 2nd November 2005.
“ONEGO PONZA”. Bilbao, July 2010.
“NIMEH”. Cádiz, August 2010.
“TORNADO” Frozen fish, Las Palmas, October 2010.
“CLIPPER TRADER” Damages to Steel coils, Richards Bay, 24th April 2013.
“TOGAY OF SOUTHAMPTON”. Alicante, 2013.
“CONDOR”. Barcelona, March 2014.
“SORRENTO”. Fire on board. Palma de Mallorca- Valencia, April 2015.

V. CARGO CLAIMS AND ARREST

VI. “HEAVY LIFT”

“SHIPPERGRACHT”. Valencia, 19th September 2005.
“MSC SOCORTA”, Valencia, 10th August 2012.

“STOLT ALLIANCE”. Phenol contamination, Arrest. Quebec, Ferrol 1993.
“POINTE DU CORMORAN”. Hexanol and butanol cargo contamination, 9th December 2002.
“PRESTIGE”. Legal advice to Fishermen’s guilds. Novermber 2002.
“EVANGELIA”. Death of eight stowaways, cargo rejection, Seville 1997.
“HACI CAPT TAN”. Death of two stowaways, cargo rejection, Seville 2000.
“WADI SUDR”. Coal, Almería 2008.
“BOLD WORLD”. Phenol, Houston / Antwerp, September 2009.
“ISABEL KNUTSEN”, Cyclohexane Benzene, Houston, 17th July 2010.
“BOW TRAJECTORY” Cumene, Houston / Ningbo (China), 8th February 2015.

VII. POLLUTION CLAIMS, ENERGY

VIII: DEFENCES IN DISPUTES RELATING TO INSURANCE POLICIES

“GRECO”. Construction of ITC Hulls, Las Palmas, 29.9.2001.
“OUED TAFNA“. Shipyard defence, Huelva, 7th April 2005.
ICC (A) and ITCH construction in several cases with successful result.
“HANJIN”, owner’s insolvency & bankruptcy.

We have been attending on relevant cases providing evidences as experts in Spanish law on Maritime, Transport and most recently in Civil liability and personal injuries.

IX. EXPERTS IN SPANISH LAW ON FOREIGN JURISDICTION

X. ARBITRATION

“ALCARAVAN”. Damage to vessels and houses at the Port of Pasajes.
“KRASNOUFISNK”/ “CASTELLANO II”. Collision.

Product liability claims on navigation in course.
General aviation, personal injuries and deaths.
Repair and maintenance contracts. Disputes.
Aerostatic balloons claims and helicopters. Personal injuries.
Aviation insurance.
Collision between Fingers and aircraft.
Bird Strikes in airports.
Zaragoza Airport vs. Audeli 1985.
Air accident, Muchamiel Airfield, 2011.
Accident León Airport, 2011.
Air accident, Orce 2012.
Collision with belture Air accident in Cuenca, 16th January 2016.
“Air Cat Fly”. Accident. Alicante 2020

XI. AVIATION

XII. PIRACY AND FRAUD

Several cases have been dealt in our firm of Piracy, their insurance coverage and their connection with general average as well as fraud cases in hull and machinery, and illegal fishing, which we cannot disclose, due to confidentiality and privacy.

Relevant experience on Fraud & Theft during carriage.

XIII. TRANSPORT BY ROAD CMR AND FREIGTH FORWARDING

XIV. PLEASURE CRAFTS

Fraud, exclusions on Institute Yacht clauses.

Madrid Windsor Tower fire. Madrid 2004.
Warehouse fire Estepona, Malaga, September 2006.
Fraud on travellers’ cheques Banco Atlántico. Experts on Spanish law in English jurisdiction.
Fire Madrid Claudio Coello 40. 29th November 2009.

XV. PROPERTY AND FINANCE

XVI. MEDIATION

ADR procedures and mediation according to Spanish law May 2012.

GALVAN ABOGADOS