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Salvage & Lloyds Open Form: Duties of Salvor

The document outlines the duties and responsibilities of masters, salvors, and ships during salvage operations. The master's top priority is safety and pollution prevention, and they must engage assistance immediately if there is no time to seek advice. Salvors must carry out operations with due care, prevent environmental risks, and accept other salvors' assistance. Ships must cooperate fully with salvors and prevent pollution. The master remains legally in charge but salvors provide expertise. Salvage assistance considerations include cargo, supplies, machinery, and value. Lloyd's Open Form uses no cure no pay terms with compensation determined by arbitrators, while SCOPIC provides alternative compensation based on resources used.

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Salvage & Lloyds Open Form: Duties of Salvor

The document outlines the duties and responsibilities of masters, salvors, and ships during salvage operations. The master's top priority is safety and pollution prevention, and they must engage assistance immediately if there is no time to seek advice. Salvors must carry out operations with due care, prevent environmental risks, and accept other salvors' assistance. Ships must cooperate fully with salvors and prevent pollution. The master remains legally in charge but salvors provide expertise. Salvage assistance considerations include cargo, supplies, machinery, and value. Lloyd's Open Form uses no cure no pay terms with compensation determined by arbitrators, while SCOPIC provides alternative compensation based on resources used.

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Salvage & Lloyds Open Form

The Master must act with urgency in the interests of safety and pollution
prevention at all times. If there is sufficient time, the master may seek advice
and instructions from the shipowner before calling for assistance and agreeing
salvage terms. If there is not time for this it is the Masters Obligation to engage
assistance immediately. This should be clearly stated in the SMS.

Duties of Salvor

 Carry out the operation with due care


 Prevent or minimise risk to the environment
 Seek assistance from other salvors
 Accept intervention of other salvors when requested

Duties of the ship

 Cooperate fully with the salvor


 Prevent or minimise risk to the environment
 To accept redelivery of the ship when requested

Responsibility

The master of the disables vessel is legally in charge of the salvage operation, in
practice the salvor will be the expert.

Consideration before offering assistance

The Masters obligation is to save lives only. If it is safe to do so he may wish to


consider salving the ship. When offering salvage assistance he should consider:
 Charter party requirements and missing LayCan dates, nature of cargo
 If the vessel has sufficient bunkers / water etc
 Whether the ships machinery and equipment are adequate
 Value of vessel and cargo to be salved

Features of Lloyds open form

 No cure no pay
 Terms agreed by radio
 Fixed terms and reward determined by arbitrators

SCOPIC clause

Provides for an alternative method of assessing compensation based on fixed


tariff for personnel and equipment used. The salvor must give written notice if he
wished to invoke the clause. He may invoke the clause to ensure he gets some
compensation even if he fails to earn anything under ‘No cure No pay’

Place of Safety

A place where a vessel being salvage can be returned to a safe condition such
that the Master can discharge the services of the Salvor. Such a place must have
facilities to effect repairs to allow the vessel to continue her voyage safely.

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