Founded by Hans Langsrud in 2016, HOL Maritime Services is a marine consultancy based in Hong Kong. HOL provides ranges of services, including salvage and wreck removal consultancy, surveying, and casualty investigation. The company has built up an extensive track-record with involvement in more than 100 cases globally serving ship owners, law firms, protection and indemnity insurance (P&I) clubs, and hull underwriters.
During his over three-decade-long career in the marine industry, Langsrud has been employed in a variety of roles, including nine years at sea on a range of ship types. In 2001, he came ashore to take on the role of technical adviser to an Oil Major. Thereafter, Langsrud was a senior risk management executive for a leading P&I Club before moving into the field of marine consultancy in 2014 at a top-drawer survey firm in Hong Kong. He is the only Lloyd’s special casualty representative in Hong Kong.
