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Marine Consultants
Tim Grime
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Tim Grime¡¯s background, following a seagoing
career as a deck officer rising to
Chief Officer is in marine surveying and
consultancy including expert witness appointments
as well as harbour management and pilotage. After
leaving the sea Tim studied for a maritime studies
degree and in various employments
thereafter has been a marine surveyor, a
harbour master, a marine pilot, and
has commissioned a new liquid gas
exporting port in Nigeria.He has also
acted as a pilot in the Middle East, Far
East, UK and West Africa and his
pilotage experience extends from small
coasters to traditional berths
to LPG and OIL tankers to
conventional ¡®T¡¯berths, VLCC¡¯s and
ULCC¡¯s to floating oil storage tankers or
ship-to-ship offshore cargo transfer operations.
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Since leaving the sea
and in addition to the
above Tim has spent more
than eight years in a
marine survey and
consultancy role and has
worked for thee well
known UK survey firms,
one of these being his
own company which he
established in 2005.
Wishing to return to an
expatriate lifestyle Tim
joined us in December
2007. Prior to that he
had also spent more than
three years working from
Qatar and Dubai in both
a marine surveying and
pilotage role, the
latter mainly
specializing in
ship-to-ship crude oil
transfer operations
offshore as both pilot
and cargo transfer
superintendent.
Tim
began his seagoing
career as a deck cadet
with The New Zealand
Shipping Company at a
time when this company
was part of P&O. He
remained with this
company for his entire
sea-going career. Moving
from general cargo ships
to bulk carriers,
container ships, oil
tankers and latterly, in
LPGas tankers Tim rose
to the rank of Chief
Officer before coming
ashore for further
studies.
His past
marine survey work has
involved extensive
overseas work for
clients, primarily P&I
clubs, and frequently to
West Africa where
corruption is endemic,
and where the safe
collection of evidence
(for those inexperienced
in West Africa) is often
very difficult and
dangerous. He has also
reviewed port and
terminal operations for
oil majors with a view
to auditing port safety
for Owners and
Charterers, and
recommending
improvements. He has
also prepared many
reports of opinion for
clients in preparation
for trial as an expert
witness in safe port
cases. Cargo claims and
admiralty work have also
featured significantly
in his previous
instructions.
Capt T.M
Grime, BSc (hons),
Master Mariner
(certificate remains
valid), First Class
Pilot.
Past and recent
appointments briefly
include;
Cargo
claims (predominantly
overseas work on
substantial potential
losses), W Africa, USA,
UK, Middle East, Europe.
Grounding of a 80k tonne
vessel (Safe port
dispute), 8M USD claims.
Two ship collision in
the Amazon River, 6M USD
claims.
Ship condition and
pre-purchase surveys.
LNG and LPG port
operations advice in a
consultancy role.
Provision of advice
concerning pilotage,
ship-handling and tug
usage both within ports
and at offshore oil
installations.
Teaching ship-handling
to Iranian and Nigerian
trainee pilots at
conventional berths and
floating storage tankers
(oil and gas tankers).
Reviewing ports for the
transhipment of oil and
gas for oil majors,
reference safe port
concerns..
Dry dock, hull and
machinery repairs for
H&M underwriters.
Pre stowage condition,
stowage and securing of
valuable project
cargoes.
Pre-towage approvals.
Court and trial
experience.
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