Malcolm Hartwell

Malcolm Hartwell

Malcolm is a director based in Durban. He is a Master Mariner and the Head of Transport for Africa. He has been with the Group since 1994.

He is a shipping lawyer and specialises in admiralty, international trade, marine insurance and all aspects of maritime casualties, in particular investigating the maritime aspects of cases involving salvage, collisions, grounding, flooding, fires, anchor dragging and cargo claims. He has been involved in most of the casualties in this region in the last twenty years.

Malcolm acts for the majority of South African marine insurers and for numerous international insurers, law firms, shipowners and P and I Clubs. He has experience in claims relating to water ingress, shortages, fires, refrigerated cargo, lashing failure, latent defects and insufficiency of packaging. These cases involve urgent Admiralty court proceedings to obtain arrest, interdict, discovery, production and access orders in South African courts and in arbitration proceedings, particularly in London. He has run litigation and arbitration in New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo and the DRC in the past few years alone.

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