Mr. Frank Gallagher

GI Tanker Services Ltd Expert Witness services within the tanker and oil industry.

Formed in 2024 by Frank Gallagher and Chris Isherwood to provide a suite of commercial services to the shipping (tanker) and oil sectors. Frank and Chris have known each other professionally since the 1980’s while working in London. Blending their varied and extensive experience and knowledge in the industry enables GI Tanker Services to provide the very best service to their clients.

GI Tanker Services uses its broad experience to provide Expert Witness services on behalf of Owners, Oil Majors, and Traders, instructed directly or by Solicitors or P&I Clubs. They can access and interpret reliable market data in support of their independent opinions.

They also produce reports on specific tanker-related projects, including freight strategy and analysis in most wet freight market sectors.

With considerable experience in Crude and Clean Petroleum Products FSU operations (especially where they are attached to refinery infrastructure), GI Tanker Services offers unique solutions for all commercial, operational, and integrative FSU matters.

Training, Coaching, and mentoring. We can deliver bespoke services, preferably in small classes on site or online, tailored to fit your business and team requirements.

Frank Gallagher
Frank is a highly experienced shipping executive, who spent nearly forty-five years in the business, most of them involving crude oil tanker chartering, and was a member of the Baltic Exchange for twenty-five years.

Through his career Frank has built an extensive knowledge of tanker business working practices. His areas of expertise include tanker chartering strategy from Owners’, Charterers’, and Brokers perspectives; freight negotiations; market analysis and forecasting; training and mentoring of shipbrokers. He has been actively involved in ‘fixing’ spot market, period and COA business throughout his career.

Frank also served for a time as Galbraith’s Director member of the London Tanker Brokers Panel (LTBP) for freight rate assessments and lectured at times on Galbraith’s internationally recognised shipping course which has been running for 50 years.

He has had many clients/connections but to name a few, Mobil, Texaco, Shell, Petroineos, Petroplus, Nynas, Coastal States, Niarchos, Bergesen, Viking Shipping, Globtik,  Frontline, Tsakos, etc ,etc… .

Frank’s time at sea and in management positions has seen him deal with people at all levels, from school leavers to managers and their CEO’s, ship’s captains, chief engineers and many owning and broking representatives in countries around the world.