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PROFILES
Captain Terry Ogg
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Sea-going
Terry Ogg served 16 years at sea from early 1974 to the end of
1989. He served his apprenticeship with T & J Harrison Line
of Liverpool, sailing as deck cadet and Third Officer on general
cargo vessels engaged in liner services from the UK to the West
Indies, US Gulf, Central & South America, East Africa &
South Africa. The vessels he sailed on were fitted with heavy
lift derricks, including Stulcken derricks up to 180t SWL. He
sailed with British and West Indian crews. |
He joined The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co
Ltd of Hong Kong (latterly Jardine Ship Management) in 1978, sailing
as Second Officer and from 1980 as Chief Officer, on gantry-craned
bulk carriers operated by Seaboard and Gearbulk. He obtained his
British Class 1 (Master Mariner) Deck Officer’s Certificate
of Competency in October 1988 and was immediately promoted to
Master of bulk carriers in the 38-42,000 dwt range, before leaving
Jardines at the end of 1989 to work ashore.
During his time with Jardines he carried a wide
variety of bulk and neo-bulk cargoes such as cement, grains (including
rice) sulphur, petroleum pitch, kaolin, petcoke, coal, fertilizers,
bauxite, concentrates, timber (including timber deck cargoes),
forest products, aluminium, construction modules, steel, heavy
machinery, project cargoes and containers (including a container
liner service). He sailed with Hong Kong Chinese and Filipino
crews.
Ashore
Terry joined the London office of international law firm Clyde
& Co in January 1990 as a Marine Investigator & Consultant.
During 4 years in the London office he worked on “dry”
disputes arising out of contracts of carriage, particularly those
requiring technical or investigative input. He then spent 4 years
based in the Guildford office attached to the Marine Casualty
Department, where he added “wet” work experience,
including salvage and collision, to his continuing dry work caseload.
In 1997 Terry transferred to Clyde’s Singapore
office where he worked for 4 years. In 1998 he was promoted to
Senior Marine Investigator & Consultant. He continued working
a diverse marine caseload, with emphasis on wet casualties and
investigations, including piracy cases.
He returned to the London office in September
2001 and has worked a mixed bag of cases, predominantly involving
Hull & Machinery, P & I, cargo and marine liabilities.
Throughout his time with Clyde & Co, Terry
worked with case handlers in all of Clyde & Co’s offices
on a very broad range of marine cases for an equally broad client
base. He has dealt with collisions, allisions, salvage, towage
disputes, ship repair disputes, loss of life and personal injury
claims, offhire and speed & consumption disputes, voyage planning
disputes, laytime disputes, cargo loss & damage including
project cargoes and contamination, cargo loading, stowage, securing
and carriage disputes, structural failures, H & M policy disputes,
engine room and deck machinery claims, unsafe port & berth
claims, navigational errors, groundings & strandings, total
losses, fires and explosions and mega-yacht cases.
He has worked for ship owners & managers,
cargo owners & insurers, charterers, port & terminal operators,
ship builders & repairers, P & I insurers, marine liability
insurers, H & M underwriters, brokers.
He has been involved in cases in the English
High Court, London, Singapore & New York arbitration, the
Singapore & Hong Kong Courts and a variety of other legal
jurisdictions. In 15 years with Clyde & Co he interviewed
and obtained statements from almost 600 witnesses.
He left Clyde & Co in December 2004 to start
up Marine Professionals.
Terry Ogg gives speaking presentations widely
on a range of marine topics, averaging 8-10 each year.
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Captain John L David
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Sea Going
Captain John spent 21 years at sea, with 5 of them in command.
He first went to sea in 1973 with London and
Overseas Freighters Ltd. John worked his way up through the Deck
officer qualifications and ranks in a broad variety of vessels,
trades and cargoes until, aged 33, he was first promoted to Master
and given command of a 40,000 tonne multi-flex vessel (geared
bulk-cargo and container vessel). |
In all, John served on large VLCC crude-oil
tankers; smaller, white oil and dirty oil parcel tankers; general
cargo vessels; bulk carriers; Great Lakers; and container vessels;
as well as a cable recovery vessel and on smaller home - trade
coaster vessels.
The cargoes he has carried include; hydrocarbons
from heavy-wax crude oils to pristine aviation fuels; bulk cargoes
of grain, coal, alumina, concentrates, fertilisers, copra, pulp,
timber; bagged cement, rice, sugar, cocoa, and mothballs; drums
of IMDG phosphorous and fibreglass resin; steel from the highest
quality finished sheets for the bonnets of American Cadillac’s
to the other end of the steel quality spectrum, the turnings and
cuttings making up steel swarf (– which spontaneously ignited
in the middle of a storm in the North Atlantic); project cargoes
including very large, heavy-lift, strip-mining machinery, yachts,
an entire soap factory and railway carriages.
John has visited a large number of ports around
the world where he has worked with officers and crews from a variety
of nationalities.
He has dealt with many problems encountered
with the above cargoes, vessels and trades, including attempts
at fraud, piracy and theft; allegations of shortage, contamination,
loss and damage; he has had to deal with Charterers of various
speed, performance, consumption, hold clean and safe port issues
on behalf of his owners. He has also had to deal with death and
major injury involving his crew and stevedores.
Whilst in command, John was closely involved
in instigating and implementing various management systems, which
have since evolved into regulatory maintenance, ISM, and ISPS
systems.
John has particular experience in main and auxiliary
engine operation and systems of the vessels he served on, as this
was one of the areas which caused many of the day-to-day practical
problems involved in operating his vessels.
After 5 years as Master, John left his last
command, a Panamax bulk carrier, in Japan on a Thursday and joined
a major marine London law firm on the following Monday.
Ashore
Captain John joined Clyde & Co in September
1996 as a Marine Investigator and Consultant.
In all, John spent 9 years working for Clyde’s
in their London office as a litigation claims handler specialising
in claims that predominantly centred around technical issues arising
out of contractual disputes. These disputes included insurance
policy issues, Hull and Machinery, Cargo, Ship building and sales,
and liability policies; as well as carriage contracts, Bills of
Lading, Charter parties, and Carriages of Afreightment.
Central to John’s involvement in these
cases was his ability to sift though existing evidence, advise
on further evidence and in particular, go and obtain crucial evidence.
The latter has often involved trips to some of the less salubrious
places in the world and interviewing witnesses who would rather
not have been tracked down and interviewed.
John also has experience in fire, collision
and personal injury matters, where his investigative skills have
provided the client with a comprehensive overview of the issues,
facts and evidence in often very difficult circumstances.
John left Clyde & Co in 2003 and spent all
of 2004 providing the same investigative and advice services to
clients working for Global Claims Management Ltd in the City of
London.
John is also often asked to provide one-off
consultancy advice on particular issues and unique projects, which
have included identifying the major areas of liability/risk in
a passenger port and in a LPG terminal/plant; and advise on the
protection of off-shore Wind farms from a less than diligent ship’s
Master.
To sum up, John investigates, advises and consults
on a very broad range of Hull & Machinery, P + I, Cargo, Port
Risks and other marine liability issues, involving vessels from
the largest tankers through to the almost equally expensive mega-yacht
claims. In the vast majority of John’s work, the terms “seaworthiness”,
“due diligence”, “privity”, “proximate
cause” and “negligence” have been key issues.
John has worked closely with ship owners, Charterers
and their P+I insurers; Hull and Machinery underwriters, claims
handlers and brokers; Port and Terminal insurers; various other
marine liability insurers; and the various cargo interests.
Captain John is a frequent lecturer and presenter
on a very varied spectrum of “marine-legal” topics
in numerous countries and has been involved and chaired a major
seminar on the Mariner and Marine Insurance.
Professional memberships: Nautical
Institute – past Chairman London Branch, IFSMA, Shipwrights,
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