Our Shipping and Maritime Law team offer their clients expert advice and assistance in the field of international trade, transport and logistics.
Our aim is to offer, whatever your main activity (logistics, shipping and ports, rail, transportation by road or air), a coverage of comprehensive, multidisciplinary services. For these purposes, the Department is made up of the various professional areas of specialty, mainly, commercial, tax and administrative, all of them with extensive experience in the field of maritime law and transport.
We offer, among others, the following services:
- Comprehensive advice to companies and public administrations.
- Port law advice for freight forwarders, towing companies, and port handlers and loading and unloading.
- Ship Arrest, advice for both creditors and debtors.
- Sale, construction and financing of vessels.
- Flag and registration of vessels. Compliance with the administrative requirements in the field of SOLAS, MARPOL, STCW, etc.
- Advice in dealing with maritime administrations and port. Drafting of resources and demands contentious-administrative. Taxes and port fees. Concessions.
- Claims for damage to the goods.
- Management of abandoned ships.
- Wreck removal.
- Chartering of sport boats.
- Maritime Accidents: approaches and rescues. Responsibility for marine pollution.
- Maritime criminal law.
Specific mention deserves our work in the field of Sports Navigation, through the advice of marinas, academies and users.
We also pay special dedication to advising the fishing sector, in particular, in everything related to the management of aid and subsidies, licenses and administrative procedures, insurance in the fishing field and resources against the sanctions imposed by the competent authority.
Finally, in coordination with our Labor Law Department, we carry out Crew Management tasks: advice to shipowners and seafarers in relation to shipping contracts (Naval registration, repatriations, registrations and cancellations), social security of the people of sea and requirements of the MLC 2006.