Erik Kravets
View from the EU Columnist
Erik Kravets is a founding partner of Kravets & Kravets http://www.kravets.de, a maritime and admiralty law firm providing bespoke solutions to clients navigating the North Sea and beyond. Clients involved in ship brokering and management, offshore, towage and salvage, vessel chartering, cargo handling/stevedoring and carriage of goods by sea come to Mr. Kravets for representation. (Photo: Heina Dannemann http://www.foto-dannemann.com/)
Sea Change
Did we take our way of life for granted? After all, humans are optimists. Our ancestors struggled over just one more hill since...
“See the World,” They Said
I grew up with stories of my Uncle Bernhard’s trips to Japan as a merchant mariner. There was that odd black-and-red lacquer...
2020 Hit Parade
Kick off your shoes, put up your feet and enjoy a quick take on this stressful year’s greatest hits! As if the pandemic were...
Tariff Follies
When national friendships turn sour, trade disputes – especially tariffs – are never far away. They’re the pe...
Cyprus: Small Island, Big Potential
(Note: I visited Cyprus in May 2019. This article, written then but never published, is a belated summary of what turned out to be...
Panic Button: Can You Use COVID-19 to Get Out of Contracts?
In the shifting sands of the COVID-19 pandemic, contracts – with their commitments and obligations – can seem like a s...
A Few Good Lawyers
It’s never fun to disagree. When everything’s going well and business is booming and customers are happily paying thei...
Climate-Change Activists are Targeting the Wrong Industry
Anger, panic and despair define environmentalism in 2019. Fridays for Future, the school strike that drove more than one million m...
Unleash the Kraken
“The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws,” wrote Tacitus in his Annals. He knew, writing long ago, t...
Insight: SAL Heavy Lift Day
A big “thank you” to SAL Heavy Lift for inviting me to speak in Hamburg before an engaged group of roughly 70 maritime...