
Our specialist team of shipping and transport solicitors and lawyers have a national reputation as the largest and most experienced shipping and transport team based outside London, working with clients who are based regionally, nationally and internationally.
Providing a 24-hour, seven days a week dedicated service, our shipping and transport solicitors undertake a huge variety of work both contentious – spanning all aspects of dispute resolution work – and non-contentious. Our long-standing links with the shipping, logistics, transport and insurance industries provides obvious benefits for our clients.
Whilst mainstream shipping, transport and insurance work is our core business, not to mention being the pre-eminent lawyers in the UK dealing with all aspects of the fishing industry, our shipping solicitors have strong links and involvement with port and harbour operators, passenger vessel owners and operators, ship builders and offshore developers. We have an increasing presence in the leisure market, particularly transactional work for super yachts.
Our vast expertise includes Dry Shipping and Transport, Sea Fisheries and Marine Environment, Ship Build, Repair, Sale and Finance, and Wet Shipping and Transport.
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