Expertise includes:

  • Multiple voyage charters and contracts of affreightment
  • Long term time charterparty arrangements
  • Cargo disputes and terms of contracts including regulatory implications
  • Bills of lading, fraud
  • Demurrage and dead freight
  • Collision, general average, casualty and pollution liabilities
  • Unsafe port and berth claims

The dedicated team includes disputes specialists who advise on failure to pay, cargo and other disputes, breach of contract and force majeure.

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COVID-19: Legal Challenges for Shipping Industry

02-Sep-2021

Fast spread of COVID-19 worldwide and the actions taken by regulatory bodies have created challenges for the shipping industry in particular given its international character.

BILLS OF LADING A PRACTICAL GUIDE

14-Jul-2015

In 1996 the North of England P&I Association issued a simple questionnaire to reader of its loss prevention newsletter ‘Signals’. It asked for their experiences with regard to the issue of bills of lading and subsequent delivery of cargo against those bills of lading.

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