H1 Area Team - UK P&I

H1 Area Team
The UK Club offers Members an unrivalled global service team.
Technical and legal specialists are at your disposal in Piraeus
and in all major maritime areas.

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The managers of the UK Club and UK Defence Club, have maintained a representative office
in Piraeus for more than thirty years. In 1998, Thomas Miller (Hellas) Ltd restructured into a
Risk fully is fledged increasing, claims handling and not unit responsible only because for the service of aggregations delivery to Greece of value based carried
members of the UK Club.
on ever larger ships, and increasing commodity prices.
Rod Lingard is the Manager of the team, known by the abbreviation "H1". He is assisted by
Tony Fielder and Ernie Foster; the Senior Claims Directors for the area. In addition there are
seven claims handlers who can support Members with a wide variety of legal and practical
shipping experience. Your team's full contact details are set out in this brochure.
Rod Lingard
Area Director
Direct Line: +30 210 458 5211
email: rod.lingard@thomasmiller.com
Rod is a master mariner and has degrees in Nautical Stuies, Law and a MBA. Rod was the Area Director
for L1/4 before moving to Greece in November 2008. Rod is also a Senior Claims Director.
Tony Fielder
Senior Claims Director
Ernie Foster
Senior Claims Director
Tony practiced as a solicitor before joining Thomas
Miller in 1990. He is the H1 claims specialist for the
co-ordination of large and complex P&I claims but he
also handles varying types of P&I and FD&D cases.
Tel: +30 210 458 5214
email: tony.fielder@thomasmiller.com
Ernie joined the Sunderland Club and then Thomas
Miller in 1972, specialising in personal injury cases.
Ernie is a Senior Claims Director
Tel: +30 210 458 5226
email: ernest.foster@thomasmiller.com
Panagiotis Alikaris
Cedric Chatteleyn
Takis joined TM(H) in 1997 before which he was
with the UK Club's Greek correspondent. Takis
deals predominantly with P&I claims.
Tel: +30 210 458 5220
email: takis.alikaris@thomasmiller.com
Cedric studied law before joining Thomas Miller in
1996 and TM(H) in June 2000. He is a senior claims
executive and handles all types of P&I/FD&D disputes.
Tel: +30 210 458 5225
email: cedric.chatteleyn@thomasmiller.com

Alexandra Couvadelli
Nick Milner
Alexandra joined Thomas Miller in 1994. She is a
qualified Greek and English solicitor. She is a senior
claims executive who joined TM(H) in 1998.
Alexandra handles FD&D and P&I disputes.
Tel: +30 210 458 5215
email: alexandra.couvadelli@thomasmiller.com
Nick joined TM(H) in 1999. Nick now specialises in
FD&D and P&I claims. He is a qualified barrister
with experience in a ship operating company and a
marine litigation firm in Piraeus.
Tel: +30 210 458 5219
email: nick.milner@thomasmiller.com
Evangelos Nomikos
Marc Jackson
Van worked in London for Rethymnis & Kulukundis
before joining Maritime Services, the UK Club's
correspondents in 1974. Van joined TM(H) in 1997.
In conjunction with Ernie, Van handles personal
injury and “people” cases for H1 Members.
Tel: +30 210 458 5213
email: vangelis.nomikos@thomasmiller.com
Marc spent four years at the Bar and a further two
years handling Defence cases with another P&I
Club. He joined Thomas Miller
in 1998 and deals with both P&I and Defence
matters. Marc is a senior claims director for Thomas
Miller Defence.
Tel: +30 210 458 5228
email: marc.jackson@thomasmiller.com
Costas Zoidis
Costas joined TM(H) in July 2000, having previously
worked for a Piraeus shipowning company. He has
a diploma and post-graduate diploma in Shipping.
Costas specialises primarily in P&I claims.
Tel: +30 210 458 5229
email: costas.zoidis@thomasmiller.com

Greek Shipping and the UK Club
It is probably not surprising that, as a nation of seafarers
and traders, Greeks were amongst the first
non-British ship owners in the world to enter ships
in P&I clubs.
In terms of the UK P&I Club, the earliest traceable
link with Greek owned ships appears to be 1885
when the list of entered ships included the name
"EMBIRICOS" registered in the port of Ibrail
(the Turkish name for Braila in Romania) and
trading in the Black Sea.
In the early part of the 20th Century, more Greek
tonnage entered the UK P&I Club. The names of
MICHALINOS and MICHALOS appeared as
members of the UK P&I Club prior to 1922, the
year Rethymnis & Kulukundis entered ships. In 1938,
Basil Mavroleon was elected as a Director of the
UK P&I Club. At that time roughly ten per cent of
the UK Club membership comprised of Greek owners.
The impact of the Second World War of the Greek
Mercantile Marine was severe. At the beginning of
the Second World War the Greek Mercantile Marine
comprised of 577 steam ship of 1,887,315 gross tons
and 711 sailing ships of 55,057 gross tons. By 1945
all that remained was 136 cargo ships of 506,614
tons, four passenger ships totalling 23,219 tons and
14 miscellaneous craft totalling less than 2,000 tons.
Almost three quarters of the entire Greek cargo
fleet was lost in that period. The restoration of the
Greek Mercantile Marine since the war to its
current pre-eminent position is acknowledged
throughout the world. It is now estimated that the
international Greek shipping community owns or
operates over 100 million tons of merchant shipping.
The total mutually entered owned tonnage in the
UK P&I Club is over 110 million gross tons. The
UK Club's membership provided by the Greek
shipping community totals 25 million tons accounting
for nearly a quarter of the total membership by
tonnage. By far the largest proportion of that
membership, 20 million gross tons, is based here in
Greece. The UK Club Greek membership is typical
of the overall Greek market focus on the movement
of primary products. Just over ninety per cent the
Club membership from this market consists of
tanker or bulk carrier ships.
Although such statistics reinforce the traditional
view of how this market built up over the second
half of the twentieth century. It should not be
forgotten that this is a very vibrant shipping
community. Almost thirty per cent of the UK
Club's Greek membership comprises ships less
than five years old and more than half of the fleet
is ships under ten years old. It is estimated that
over 18 million gross tons of shipping is currently
on order to Greek interests for delivery by the end
of 2009.
Thomas Miller (Hellas) Limited
The importance of the Greek community to the
Club and the industry in general has never been
underestimated. The managers of the UK P&I
Club, and the UK Defence Club, have maintained
a representative office in Piraeus staffed by Thomas
Miller's executives for more than thirty years.
In 1998, Thomas Miller (Hellas) Limited was
restructured into a fully fledged claims handling
unit responsible for service delivery to the Greece
based members of the UK P&I Club.
The Club also provides support for those Greek
Members who operate beyond the Mediterranean.
The London-based Area Group L1/4 also services
Greek controlled tonnage with the desire of many
of these members to manage their insurance affairs
through their London offices. The Manager of L1/4
is Martyn Haines who is assisted by eight claims
handlers, many with either legal or practical shipping
experience, some of it in owners' employment.
The correspondents
In addition to this office, the Club has two
correspondents in Greece to support all Members
trading to and from Greece. The UK P&I Club's
correspondent for the Athens and Piraeus area is
Shipserve (International) Inc. In Thessaloniki in
Northern Greece, the UK P&I Club correspondent
is Pr. A Iliadis (Shipping) S.A.