Andrew Johnstone

Andrew is a Chartered Naval Architect with over 25 years of experience in marine consultancy and ship classification. He specializes in marine surveys, casualty investigations, salvage and wreck removal operations, and has extensive experience representing Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Clubs and Hull & Machinery (H&M) underwriters, including attendance at repair yards.

He is a member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), the Society of Offshore Marine Warranty Surveyors (SOMWS), and the Lloyd’s panel of Special Casualty Representatives (SCR).

Andrew has acted as Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS) on offshore transportation and installation projects involving FPSOs, fixed platforms, TLPs, SPARs, semi-submersibles, and subsea pipelines. His scope has included participation in HAZOP/HAZID studies, risk assessments, procedural reviews, and offshore attendance.

His casualty experience includes groundings (bulk carriers, warships, ro-ro ferries, container vessels), fires on factory fishing vessels, and flooding incidents on offshore units.
He is an IMCA eCMID-accredited vessel inspector and has carried out offshore vessel audits, suitability surveys, pre-purchase inspections, shipyard risk assessments, and loss prevention surveys for P&I Clubs. He also prepares expert reports and has provided testimony in U.S. litigation.

Andrew additionally conducts flag state inspections for the Isle of Man Ship Registry in South America. Prior to consultancy, he worked as a classification society plan approval surveyor, performing structural, fatigue, and mooring analyses for FPSOs.