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Home > Services > Shipping & Transport > Shipping Disputes
The shipping lawyers at HBJ Gateley Wareing, incorporating Holmes Hardingham, have many years’ experience of international commercial dispute resolution in courts and arbitral tribunals in the UK and throughout the world.
Our team can assist with a wide variety of shipping-related problems, from marine litigation through international trade and commodity disputes and marine insurance claims to disputes over commercial agreements for the shipment or supply of goods and services of many different kinds. Clients include shipowners, charterers, P & I Clubs, oil companies, commodity traders, cargo owners and their underwriters, and ship classification and cargo inspection agencies.
The firm is routinely involved in litigation in the Commercial and Mercantile Courts and has particular expertise in London maritime arbitrations.
As well as LMAA arbitrations we regularly handle salvage arbitrations under Lloyd's Open Form as well as international arbitrations under the auspices of the London Court of International Arbitration and the International Chamber of Commerce.
Some of our team have particular expertise in Cargo and Logistics issues and Commodity Trading disputes.
We have extensive experience of obtaining security in connection with marine and commercial claims by the seizure and arrest of assets both in the UK and abroad. We have considerable experience of jurisdiction disputes and obtaining or resisting anti-suit injunctions with a view to ensuring that our clients' matters are submitted to the most advantageous forum. In addition to the expertise available in our own offices in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dubai, we have built up an extensive network of contacts with specialised lawyers in other European and worldwide jurisdictions.
Types of work routinely undertaken by the team include:
- Charterparty Disputes
- Cargo Claims
- Bills of Lading
- Unseaworthiness
- General Average
- Collision and Salvage
- Oil Tanker claims
- Transhipment
- Safe Port Disputes
- Dangerous Cargoes
- Contaminations
- Off Hire
- Detention and Demurrage
- Speed and Performance
- Limitation of Liability
Highlights:
- Representing Chevron Shipping Limited, owners of ULCC "Chevron North America" in the House of Lords in the defence of a £10m claim concerning Bareboat Charterer's liability for harbour damage.
- Acting for the owners and insurers of the tanker "Braer", establishing a Limitation Fund in the Court of Session and defending all claims arising out of the grounding and pollution off Shetland, one of Britain's largest ever marine casualties.
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