Hill Dickinson’s cargo, freight and logistics team offers specialist legal services to the freight, transport, logistics and warehousing industries. These services are provided to both the operator and insurance sectors. Advice is given on all intermodal issues, from commercial contracts, conditions of business and insurance policy drafting to risk and crisis management.
Areas of expertise include:
- Dispute resolution (litigation, LMAA arbitration, GAFTA and FOSFA arbitration and ADR)
- Hague Rules/Hague-Visby Rules, Hamburg Rules, Rotterdam Rules, Montreal Convention, Warsaw Convention, CMR Convention, BIFA, RHA, FTA and UKWA Conditions
- Cargo insurance
- Cargo recoveries
- Freight forwarders’, carriers’, warehouse keepers’ liability intermodally (including air carriage)
- Policy issues for liability insurers and for operators
- GIT liabilities
- Contractual disputes
- Advice on conditions of trading and general business advice to the freight industry
- Commodities disputes
- Charter party and bills of lading disputes
- Salvage and general average
- HM Customs and Excise disputes
- Liner agents
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Hill
Dickinson splits its cargo, freight and logistics team between
London and Manchester, with lawyers from the two offices
collaborating closely to provide clients with a high level of
service. The team is known for efficient handling of the full range
of liability claims from simple to highly complex, and it is active
on the domestic and international stages. Zurich, Tokio Marine,
Agility Logistics and Bacardi are amongst its notable clients.
