- About Nick Willis
Nick Willis is a consultant from a Sale and Purchase (S&P) broker background with Over 40 years of experience in the shipping industry.
He has valued most types of ocean-going merchant ship throughout his career and been appointed as an expert witness in almost 300 Arbitration or Court cases in the UK, Greece, Denmark, Netherlands, Singapore and the USA. He is a member of the Baltic Expert Witness Association (BEWA) and for seven years he was the Director of the Lloyds Maritime Academy’s bi-annual online course in ‘Ship Valuation’.
Ship Valuation Consultancy Ltd (SVC) has traditionally adopted a unique approach to valuation and maritime consultancy business. Unlike shipbrokers who additionally earn commissions on sale and purchase or chartering transactions, SVC is solely fee-based and rarely provides either valuation or consultancy services direct to ship owners, focusing instead on marine institutions, shipping banks, insurers and law firms.
About Ship Valuation Consultancy - SVC
SVC was established specifically to service the requirements of the ship finance and legal community. With strong ties to both commercial and technical consultants, including a network of independent marine and engineering surveyors, the company has endeavoured to create a unique coming together of commercial and technical shipping skills particularly relevant in risk management, forensic ship valuation and expert witness services. SVC furthermore maintains an ongoing close relationship with several ship management companies enabling it to keep up-to-date on operational and safety issues, class and flag requirements and regulatory developments affecting shipping.
SVC strives to make its reports and valuation appraisals as thorough and accurate as possible at all times. The SVC database holds substantial commercial information covering all principal ship types dating from the early 1970’s to the present day. Whereas most brokers and consultancy companies have to rely upon commercial data compiled from a limited number of sources where the information circulating may be localised, limited and inaccurate, the fact that SVC is not a competitive broking house enables it to access regular support and objective reports on a daily basis from a much wider range of brokers, contacts and shipping sources from all over the world. As a consequence the scope and accuracy of the information against which specialised reports and valuation assessments are made is second to none.
Expert Witness Services for Ship Sale & Purchase Disputes
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