IMDG Cargo Archives - Hawkins Forensic Investigation https://www.hawkins.biz/service/imdg-cargo/ Specialising in Forensic Investigation Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:32:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.hawkins.biz/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/favicon-1.png IMDG Cargo Archives - Hawkins Forensic Investigation https://www.hawkins.biz/service/imdg-cargo/ 32 32 Stewart Horan https://www.hawkins.biz/our-experts/stewart-horan/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:03:22 +0000 https://www.hawkins.biz/?post_type=leadership&p=18620 Stewart joined Hawkins as a Marine Consultant in 2023 having previously worked for another consultancy since 1999. During this period, he attended incidents and provided advice on a wide range of marine matters involving liquid and bulk cargoes, bunkers, container vessels, oil and chemical tankers, and bulk carriers.

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Stewart joined Hawkins in 2023 bringing a wealth of marine-related knowledge and experience.

Stewart gained his UK Master Mariners Certificate of Competency in 1991. He achieved this whilst sailing with Canadian Pacific on their Crude, Product and Chemical tankers with the carriage of oil, chemical and vegetable oils cargoes. He has also sailed on bulk, forest products, and container vessels.

Thereafter Stewart became a Port Captain with a chemical tanker company, and was responsible for attending incidents and performing intensive port, cargo, and tank-cleaning operations. He also attended grounding incidents and was involved in preventing pollution as part of the Emergency Response Team.

Stewart then gained his LLM degree in Legal Aspects of Mariner Affairs from the University of Wales, College Cardiff in 1994. Following this, he was appointed as a Marine Superintendent/Marine Manger of an oil/chemical tanker company handling oil, chemical, asphalt, and high-heat coal tar pitch with ongoing experience in incidents and undertaking inspections. During this period, Stewart also managed voyage and time charters, and charter party claim aspects.

Stewart has worked as a Marine Consultant since 1999, attending numerous incidents and providing advice on a wide range of marine matters including liquid and bulk cargoes, bunkers, container vessels, oil and chemical tankers, and bulk carriers. Stewart provided expert advice on the handling and carriage of liquid and bulk cargoes under the applicable IMO Codes and recognised industry guidelines and standards. Stewart also developed strategies for safe shipping of both methane-emitting and self-heating coals, from loading and voyage management, through to providing a discharge strategy

Stewart has given evidence in the High Court and at Arbitration in United Kingdom, Oslo and Singapore on the carriage and handling of cargo, navigation, groundings, tanker operations, ship vetting, ship management and general shipboard operations including ship-to-ship (STS) transfers.

LANGUAGES

Stewart is fluent in English

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]]> Robert Edwards https://www.hawkins.biz/our-experts/robert-edwards-director/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:01:50 +0000 https://www.hawkins.biz/?post_type=leadership&p=12230 After completing a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship, Robert joined Liverpool John Moores University as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry. Here he developed a successful research programme in environmental chemistry and environmental analysis, publishing numerous papers in scientific journals and books and presenting research work at many national and international conferences. Robert has lectured extensively on analytical, environmental and corrosion chemistry. He was the course leader for the University’s MSc Analytical Chemistry course and was an assessor for the Higher Education Funding Council (Wales). Robert also gave annual lecture courses and workshops in Universities in Thailand, where he was a visiting lecturer. Since joining Hawkins in 2001, Robert has specialised in post-fire, post-flood and post-chemical spill contamination investigations throughout the world. This work involves determining the effects of contaminants on buildings, production equipment, complex computer systems and products, including food stuffs, and providing advice on the long term effects of the contaminants and best remediation techniques for recovery. During his time at Hawkins, Robert successfully completed the BOHS course for surveying buildings for asbestos and has since carried out asbestos contamination surveys following various incidents in the UK and Europe. Robert has also conducted many forensic fire […]

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]]> After completing a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship, Robert joined Liverpool John Moores University as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry. Here he developed a successful research programme in environmental chemistry and environmental analysis, publishing numerous papers in scientific journals and books and presenting research work at many national and international conferences.

Robert has lectured extensively on analytical, environmental and corrosion chemistry. He was the course leader for the University’s MSc Analytical Chemistry course and was an assessor for the Higher Education Funding Council (Wales). Robert also gave annual lecture courses and workshops in Universities in Thailand, where he was a visiting lecturer.

Since joining Hawkins in 2001, Robert has specialised in post-fire, post-flood and post-chemical spill contamination investigations throughout the world. This work involves determining the effects of contaminants on buildings, production equipment, complex computer systems and products, including food stuffs, and providing advice on the long term effects of the contaminants and best remediation techniques for recovery.

During his time at Hawkins, Robert successfully completed the BOHS course for surveying buildings for asbestos and has since carried out asbestos contamination surveys following various incidents in the UK and Europe.

Robert has also conducted many forensic fire investigations in a variety of domestic and industrial situations. He is experienced in the legal process and has been involved in providing independent advice in the form of verbal and written evidence in both civil and criminal cases relating to fire investigation and contamination work.

Robert is currently a Principal Associate based in the Manchester office as well as Hawkins’ Operations Director.

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]]> Robert Edwards https://www.hawkins.biz/our-experts/robert-edwards/ Fri, 13 May 2022 11:57:57 +0000 https://hawkins.salttest.co/?post_type=leadership&p=3197 After completing a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship, Robert joined Liverpool John Moores University as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry. Here he developed a successful research programme in environmental chemistry and environmental analysis, publishing numerous papers in scientific journals and books and presenting research work at many national and international conferences. Robert has lectured extensively on analytical, environmental and corrosion chemistry. He was the course leader for the University’s MSc Analytical Chemistry course and was an assessor for the Higher Education Funding Council (Wales). Robert also gave annual lecture courses and workshops in Universities in Thailand, where he was a visiting lecturer. Since joining Hawkins in 2001, Robert has specialised in post-fire, post-flood and post-chemical spill contamination investigations throughout the world. This work involves determining the effects of contaminants on buildings, production equipment, complex computer systems and products, including food stuffs, and providing advice on the long term effects of the contaminants and best remediation techniques for recovery. During his time at Hawkins, Robert successfully completed the BOHS course for surveying buildings for asbestos and has since carried out asbestos contamination surveys following various incidents in the UK and Europe. Robert has also conducted many forensic fire […]

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After completing a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship, Robert joined Liverpool John Moores University as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry. Here he developed a successful research programme in environmental chemistry and environmental analysis, publishing numerous papers in scientific journals and books and presenting research work at many national and international conferences.

Robert has lectured extensively on analytical, environmental and corrosion chemistry. He was the course leader for the University’s MSc Analytical Chemistry course and was an assessor for the Higher Education Funding Council (Wales). Robert also gave annual lecture courses and workshops in Universities in Thailand, where he was a visiting lecturer.

Since joining Hawkins in 2001, Robert has specialised in post-fire, post-flood and post-chemical spill contamination investigations throughout the world. This work involves determining the effects of contaminants on buildings, production equipment, complex computer systems and products, including food stuffs, and providing advice on the long term effects of the contaminants and best remediation techniques for recovery.

During his time at Hawkins, Robert successfully completed the BOHS course for surveying buildings for asbestos and has since carried out asbestos contamination surveys following various incidents in the UK and Europe.

Robert has also conducted many forensic fire investigations in a variety of domestic and industrial situations. He is experienced in the legal process and has been involved in providing independent advice in the form of verbal and written evidence in both civil and criminal cases relating to fire investigation and contamination work.

Robert is currently a Principal Associate based in the Manchester office as well as Hawkins’ Operations Director.

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