BA ,MSc ,LLM, Dip. Maritime Arbitration (CIArb), MCIArb (UK)
- Started career with a commercial background and later embarked on maritime law, legal and arbitration studies, with practical application in handling maritime disputes.
- Extensive commercial experience working for owners and charterers and as a consultant, specialising in charter party disputes.
- Commercial operations – chartering experience: daily collaboration with the operations department on various issues and the chartering department on drafting or considering proposed amendments to clauses during fixing negotiations.
- Commercial and disputes handling experience: resolved many claims up and down the charter chain (back to back), thus developing a pragmatic approach to charter party disputes and understanding of the parties’ rival positions.
- Consultancy experience: provided expert insights and consultancy on various research projects concerning laytime, speed and performance methodologies based on experience.
- Arbitration experience: involved in various disputes that were referred to arbitration under the LMAA Terms concerning speed and performance, off-hires, cargo damage, unsafe port, laytime, etc.
- Contributor to LMLN and MRI: published articles in MRI and recently summarised two London Arbitration Awards published in Lloyd’s Maritime Law Newsletter https://www.lmln.com/ (see LMLN 29/22 and 32/22).
- Member of the Baltic Expert Witness Association (BEWA).
- Lloyd’s certified in laytime and demurrage, and tanker operations.
- Supporting member of the LMAA willing to accept appointment as an Arbitrator or Evaluator (ENE) for charter party disputes.
Prokopios launched this website (www.charterpartydisputes.com) in 2021 to share his observations from analysing LMAA Awards and negotiating charter party disputes.
His short & full bio can be found here: Prokopios Krikris (balticexpertwitness.com)
Arbitration Membership
CIArb-https://www.ciarb.org/
LMAA(supp. Member)-https://lmaa.london/
SCMA- https://www.scma.org.sg/
HKMAG- https://www.hkmag.org.hk/home
Guidebooks (free download)
- A Snapshot Guide to Laytime & Demurrage, 2021| Forty years published London Maritime Arbitration Awards (1980-2020).
- Speed and Consumption Claims: A practical perspective and statistics, 2021.
- List of 890 published LMAA Awards, 1979-2022 with keywords, 2023.
Articles
- How do you calculate loss following a “triangle form” deviation?,
Maritime Risk International - Redelivery bunker quantities remain a topic of heated debate
Maritime Risk International - Trading in ice ports: potential exposure
Maritime Risk International - Vague terms remain in speed and consumption clauses
Maritime Risk International
*Articles can be read as well in https://www.i-law.com/ilaw/index.htm#