Hill Dickinson's shipping team has a long and enviable reputation for dealing with all aspects of both contentious and non-contentious shipping-related work.
The team receives instructions from the full spectrum of those involved in the maritime industry including ship owners, charterers, shipyards, P&I clubs, port and terminal operators, underwriters and traders.
Areas of contentious expertise include:
- Bill of lading and charterparty disputes
- Collisions and groundings
- Unsafe port and berth disputes
- Salvage, towage, wreck removal and general average
- Ship arrest and release
- Ship building and ship repair
- Personal injury (crew and passenger) and industrial disease
- Stowaways
- Marine insurance and re-insurance policies and disputes (including P&I
- Environment and pollution
- Admiralty (including arrest and limitation proceedings)
Areas of non-contentious expertise include:
- Ship building contracts
- Issues arising from corporate structures and shareholdings
- Regulatory issues
- Joint ventures, agency and distribution agreements
- Port infrastructure, re-organisation and funding
- Major Casualty and Emergency Response (including initial investigation work, taking evidence at the scene of the casualty and handling the media)
- Advice and assistance on the ISM Code and in contingency planning
- Ship management Agreements
- Advice on vessels' insurances and ISM compliance
- Charterparties
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Hill Dickinson LLP’s ‘advice is always tailored to
the nature of the dispute, the jurisdiction and the level of
assistance required’. The firm recently merged with Middleton
Potts, boosting its presence in the commodities sector.
