Eversheds International
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Shipping
Today's challenges
The shipping sector operates against a background of rapid development, multi-jurisdictional issues and fluctuating economic conditions. Despite the current downturn over 90 per cent of global trade is carried by sea with shipping accounting for around $380 billion in freight revenues or around 5 per cent of total world trade. The sector faces many complex issues including; the international matrix of sale contracts, international sale of good contracts and financing structures. You also need to consider compliance with complex regulatory and environmental issues at a time when both markets and customers are demanding good corporate governance and responsibility.
How we can help
The Eversheds shipping team has a long track record of providing innovative and creative solutions to address these issues, tempered with a practical and straightforward commercial approach. Our use of project management techniques provides you with clear commercial advice and the cost certainty that you need in any project or dispute. We have specialist maritime lawyers operating in our offices in the UK, Hong Kong and the Middle East.
Our full service shipping team advises international and UK clients on all aspects of international shipping and trade. We advise the buyers and sellers of goods, ship-owners and charterers, along with their insurers and banks. We can support you with the legal aspects of ship building, finance, contracts of carriage, insurance and the integration of shipping and logistics, multi-modal transport together with restructuring and insolvency work in the maritime sector. With emerging economies increasingly driving the sector the breadth and scope of our coverage also helps our clients to manage business issues in key markets across the globe.
To learn more about our full service offering and areas of expertise please visit our Shipping pages.
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