Shipping

Wanqiao’s shipping group consist lawyers who had plenty experience working for maritime safety administration authorities, shipping, insurance and int’l trade companies with the technical qualification of first engineer and insurance assessor. Wanqiao provides professional services for shipowners, charterers, operators, brokers, underwriters, P&I, shipbuilders, repair yards, trading companies, port operators, freight forwarders and logistics companies.

Our corporation & securities practice include:

1. Admiralty
·Ships collision, contact and grounding
·salvage, towage, wreck removal
·Oil pollution and environmental damage
·Fire, General and particular average
·Personal injury, professional negligence
·applying limitation of maritime liability
·Manning, crew manning
·Port operation
·Shipping and marine dispute resolution practices, including preservation of maritime claims (arrest of ship and distaining cargo) and preservation of the evidences
·administrative litigation related to maritime affairs

2. Maritime
·Marine insurance: hull insurance, builder risks insurance, cargo insurance, P&I, oil pollution insurance;
·Bills of lading, sea waybills and through bills
·Bareboat charters, time charters and voyage charters
·Coastal transport
·Agency agreements, shipping agency and cargo forwarding, shipping management and broker business
·Logistics and multi-modal transport
·Salvage contracts and towage
·Marine engineering contracts, ocean exploitation and utilization

3. ship
·ship building and ship repair
·ship purchase, bareboat charters
·ship registration, ship ownership registration, ship mortgage registration, bareboat registration ·ship export and import ·ship reconstruction, ship demolition