ADMIRALTY & SHIPPING LAW

ADMIRALTY & SHIPPING LAW

ADMIRALTY & SHIPPING LAW

We provide our thorough legal counselling on all types of maritime cases and complicated international and multi-jurisdictional issues, advising a wide range of participants in the maritime sector in litigious and non- litigious dry & wet shipping aspects. Therefore, we arbitrate, mediate and litigate in the most important sections of maritime law and our counselling services, include:

  • international carriage of goods by sea issues, claims for loss or damage to cargo (claims in rem – in personam, maritime liens, ship arrest and security, injunctions, forfeiture);
  • bill of lading & charterparty (voyage, time, bareboat, demise) disputes;
  • choice of flag, ownership and registration of commercial/container ships;
  • claims for casualties, collisions, salvage, general average, fire and strandings, total loss, wreck removal, towage and pilotage, oil pollution from ships, passenger & personal injury claims and in general claims subject to various international conventions or national laws such as the Greek Code on Private Maritime Law; 
  • claims for demurrages and liquidated damages in cases where the laytime provision stated in the governing contract is breached and exceeded;
  • contracts of affreightment, freight and off-hire disputes (obligations, rights & liability relevant to seaworthiness and maintenance of a vessel, occasions of engine breakdown, etc.); 
  • creation of offices/branches, subsidiaries of foreign shipping entities for activities exclusively related to the management, operation, brokerage, chartering, average adjustment and insurance of non- passenger ships Greek or foreign flagged; 
  • customs handling and disputes, import – export licensing, customs regulations, customs offences – fines and forfeiture of goods, marine regulations; 
  • limitation of liability for shipowners, charterers, operators, managers; 
  • liner shipping industry & legal issues arising during the service of transporting goods by means of high-capacity, ocean-going ships, roll- on/roll-off vessels that transit regular routes on fixed schedules;
  • marine insurance, issues arising from P&I Clubs, hull and cargo underwriters, insurers;
  • disputes about ownership or possession of a vessel;
  • port operations, procedures, authorities;
  • ship sale, purchase, shipbuilding and repair contracts and disputes;
  • yacht sale – purchase transactions, boat registrations & offshore flagging, yacht ownership structuring – Greek & offshore, chartering, yacht/boat company formation – management – capital shares – dissolution;