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Cargo & Freight

Hill Dickinson’s Cargo & Freight team offers specialist legal services to the freight, transport, logistics and warehousing industries. Services are provided to both 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)
  • 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
  • Charterparty and bills of lading disputes
  • Salvage and general average
  • HM Customs & Excise disputes

Click here for the latest edition of our Marine Newsletter and for our regular cargo & freight updates:

Cargo and Freight Bulletin February 2008

Cargo and Freight Bulletin December 2007

Freight Forwarders and The FSA June 2007

FSA January 2007

Datec Electronics vs UBS May 2007

FSA October 2006

UK Warehousing Association Conditions Update October 2006

CMR: Recoverability of Customs Duty September 2006

CMR: Suspension of Limitation Periods August 2006