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Paddy Rynders

Marine Director / Maritime Consultant

Paddy Rynders

Marine Director / Maritime Consultant

+31 (0)10 479 0311
+31 6 527 110 52

Paddy Rynders has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nautical Studies from the Maritime Institute De Ruyter, Flushing. He has more than a decade of seagoing experience up to the rank of Chief Officer on board heavy lift transport vessels, general cargo vessels, tankers, and coastal vessels. Over the years, Paddy has handled numerous high-profile cases and investigated major claims worldwide in connection with general averages, container losses, fires, oil spillages, cargo claims and collisions and groundings.

Paddy is a registered surveyor (NIVRE), a fire investigator, a trained expert witness for London arbitrations, and a former lecturer at a Dutch Nautical College

Discipline

Mariner, Fire Investigator

Surveyor since

1999; Marine Director since 2006; Fire Investigator since: 2016

Specialisms
  • All round P&I / liability / cargo matters / nautical investigations

  • Large general average claims & maritime incidents / casualties

  • Container collapse investigations

  • Collision / allision / grounding investigations

  • Collision Reconstruction and Simulation

  • Fire Investigation

  • Lashing & securing

  • Stability matters

  • Tanker, Liquid and Gas

     
Memberships
  • Dutch Association of Registered Surveyors
    Nivre logo
  • Member of the International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI)
  • Associate Fellow of The Nautical Institute (AFNI)
Location

Rotterdam

Language

Dutch, English, German

+31 (0)10 479 0311
+31 6 527 110 52