Maritime & Transport
Commercial, regulatory, casualty, and dispute support for shipowners, charterers, carriers, freight interests, agents, ports, logistics providers, and Red Sea businesses across vessel and cargo operations.Scope of service
The final scope is confirmed after reviewing the facts, documents, jurisdiction, and applicable deadlines.
Identify the parties, transport mode, contractual chain, vessel and cargo status, port, customs and safety interfaces, jurisdiction, time bars, liability regime, and available security at the outset.
Draft and review charterparties, carriage and multimodal transport terms, bills of lading, freight forwarding, agency, terminal, warehousing, towage, bunkering, ship-service, and logistics agreements.
Advise on vessel registration, ownership and mortgage records, charter and agency authority, statutory certificates, port permissions, crew or service arrangements, and transaction closing documents.
Manage cargo shortage, contamination, damage, misdelivery and delay claims, including immediate notices, joint surveys, evidence preservation, mitigation, limitation issues, and insurer or P&I coordination.
Support collision, grounding, pollution, salvage, general average, detention, arrest, security, and casualty response with surveyors, correspondents, authorities, technical experts, and emergency applications.
Pursue or defend freight, demurrage, detention, cargo, charter, agency, and marine-service disputes through negotiation, court proceedings, arbitration, recognition, and enforcement against reachable assets.
Typical documents
Review can begin with available records; additional documents may be requested for the matter.
- Charterparty, transport, forwarding, agency, terminal, warehousing, and service contracts
- Bills of lading, sea waybills, booking notes, manifests, delivery orders, and customs records
- Vessel registry, title, mortgage, class, statutory certificate, logbook, and port documents
- Cargo invoices, packing lists, certificates, tally sheets, receipts, photographs, and temperature or tracking data
- Notices of protest or claim, correspondence, survey, expert, casualty, police, and authority reports
- Insurance and P&I records, guarantees, security, general-average papers, settlements, and prior proceedings
Legal framework and official references
Authoritative references defining the service’s general framework. The official Arabic text, later amendments, and matter-specific rules remain controlling.
Sources checked 6 September 2026