Marine & Shipping
Global economic shifts, supply chain disruptions, tariffs, and evolving regulations continue to challenge marine and offshore construction and operations.
HKA’s marine, shipping, and offshore specialists help clients navigate risk and resolve disputes — onshore, offshore, and across jurisdictions.
Expert support for marine & shipping challenges
Marine, shipbuilding, and offshore fabrication projects are under pressure from rising costs, supply chain disruptions, and skilled labour shortages. At the same time, the wider industry faces geopolitical uncertainty, shifting regulations, and growing environmental and policy demands. These converging forces are driving a surge in complex project disputes and international arbitration.
HKA provides advisory, consulting, and expert services to owners, contractors, and operators across the global shipping, offshore, and marine sectors. Our specialists support clients with:
- Claims advice and management
- Contractual and commercial support
- Dispute resolution and expert testimony
- Environmental assessment and ESG
- Forensic technical, financial, and regulatory investigations
- Major incidents and insurance claims
- Project development and optimisation
Why HKA
HKA’s marine, shipping, and offshore specialists bring deep sector knowledge and global experience to every engagement. Our team is both broad and deep – able to deploy individual subject-matter experts or assemble multi-disciplinary teams to address the critical challenges facing shipping companies, offshore operators, supply chains, investors, and regulators, regardless of scope, scale, or geography.
Our experience spans:
- Shipbuilding - from naval carriers, submarines, and luxury yachts to oil tankers and floating production storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs)
- Vessel repair and conversion - including renovation, refit, maintenance, and decommissioning
- Marine engineering - across dredging, pipelaying, piling, heavy lift, and installation
- Marine fabrication - supporting offshore oil, gas, and renewable energy projects
- Marine salvage - including associated insurance claims
- Ports, harbours, and canals - infrastructure development and operational challenges
- Offshore wind - across all levels of the supply chain, from fabrication to installation
Whether supporting a dispute, advising on project strategy, or investigating technical and financial issues, HKA delivers insight, clarity, and confidence to clients navigating complex marine and offshore challenges.
How we can help you
As a global leader in risk mitigation and dispute resolution, HKA supports the marine and shipping industry with a wide range of expert capabilities tailored to complex technical, commercial, and regulatory challenges.
We provide robust assessments of damages – from equipment failures to delayed vessel commissioning. Our experts support clients throughout the lifecycle of commercial disputes involving joint ventures, shareholders, M&A, bankruptcies, intellectual property, and insurance claims.
Our quantum specialists are recognised for their impartial analysis and deep experience in valuing complex marine and shipping project disputes.
Delay and disruption experts apply proven methodologies to assess causation and impact, drawing on extensive backgrounds in project management, planning, and critical path analysis across shipbuilding and marine engineering.
Our technical experts cover a broad spectrum – including engineering, metallurgy, manufacturing, digital modelling, and environmental impact – across marine fabrication and offshore construction.
From internal fraud to supply chain irregularities and overcharging on shipbuilding contracts, our forensic accountants investigate financial misconduct and regulatory breaches. Free from audit conflicts, HKA is well-positioned to support large-scale investigations, including those involving government contracting and cybersecurity.
We provide robust assessments of damages – from equipment failures to delayed vessel commissioning. Our experts support clients throughout the lifecycle of commercial disputes involving joint ventures, shareholders, M&A, bankruptcies, intellectual property, and insurance claims.
Our quantum specialists are recognised for their impartial analysis and deep experience in valuing complex marine and shipping project disputes.
Delay and disruption experts apply proven methodologies to assess causation and impact, drawing on extensive backgrounds in project management, planning, and critical path analysis across shipbuilding and marine engineering.
Our technical experts cover a broad spectrum – including engineering, metallurgy, manufacturing, digital modelling, and environmental impact – across marine fabrication and offshore construction.
From internal fraud to supply chain irregularities and overcharging on shipbuilding contracts, our forensic accountants investigate financial misconduct and regulatory breaches. Free from audit conflicts, HKA is well-positioned to support large-scale investigations, including those involving government contracting and cybersecurity.
Global experience and expertise
HKA’s shipping, offshore, and marine experts have delivered strategic advice, conducted investigations, and provided testimony across every continent – before courts, arbitration tribunals, regulatory bodies, and international forums. We help clients manage business-critical conflicts and commercial uncertainty wherever they operate.
Clients in the marine and shipping sector trust HKA to:
- Anticipate
Gain greater certainty by leveraging our advisory expertise and experience in compliance, regulatory and dispute management.
- Investigate
Rely on incisive analysis to support accurate and settlements, and the determination of damages and losses.
- Resolve
Count on authoritative, impartial opinions and expert testimony in arbitration, litigation, and regulatory proceedings.
