Shipping and transport sector's tight regulatory framework requires companies to address financing requirements and countless liability and insurance issues
Shipping, transport and logistic
Our strengths – being a global law firm – in transport, litigation, insurance and environment are some of the attractions for clients in the shipping, transport and logistics industries. We assist shipping and transport companies, logistics providers and freight forwarding agents as well as their liability insurers and cargo insurers.
Our practice includes shipping and transport, especially maritime, road, air, railway and multimodal transport of goods (and passengers), chartering of vessels, other maritime law matters, freight forwarding and logistics agreements.
- Cargo claims: Lost, delayed or damaged goods
- Carrier liability
- Sale and purchase of vessels
- Bunker contracts and disputes
- Ship arrest
- Assistance to ports
- Insurance and reinsurance
- All carriage contracts, including conditions of carriage
- Salvage
- Collisions
- Freight forwarding and logistics solutions for all means of transport
- Aircraft arrest
- Sale and purchase of aircraft and aircraft engines
- Aircraft liens, title search and registration matters
- Aviation personnel licensing matters
- Airport environmental matters
- Aviation penal cases
Furthermore, we offer legal advice concerning all other issues and questions associated with transportation, shipping and aviation, including international trade, corporate law, competition law and labour law. We serve the industry!
We are always ready to assist and can facilitate transfer of all matters to local DLA Piper shipping and transport lawyers, if local knowledge or language skills are needed.
