Maritime & Transportation

The marine and transportation fields are critical to an isolated island nation such as New Zealand with its export-led economy.

In a country that's also renowned for its boat building industry, and as a destination for touring sailors, the legal considerations associated with the maritime and transportation fields are many and varied.

How we can help

Jones Fee has established a solid track record across this area and is well equipped to help you. Some of the work we regularly undertake includes:

• Acting for marine insurers across the whole range of their activity, covering cargo, hull and liability. This includes policy response advice, policy drafting, defence of disputed claims against insurers, defence of insurers with liability policies, and subrogated recoveries.
• Admiralty - ship arrest, priorities disputes and the like.
• Acting directly for a large number of freight forwarders. This includes drafting trading and bill of lading terms, assisting with risk management generally, and dispute resolution.
• Dealing with issues arising with the carriage of goods, including air, sea and domestic carriage.
• Assisting importers and exporters in relation to terms of sale, letters of credit and the like.
• Maritime-related commercial activity, including ship sale and purchase, ship registration, financing and charterparties.