Maritime, Shipping & Transport

El Chaer Law Firm’s lawyers advise the Firm’s clients on all aspects of Lebanese and International Maritime Law. The Firm represents ship owners, protection and freight forwarders, charterers, vessel operators, carriers, and courier companies on a full range of maritime law and practice matters including marine insurance coverage and defense issues under cargo, hull and machinery, all-risk yacht, and pollution liability policies.

Our Lawyers’ experience involves advising on complying with Lebanese pollution law, responding to major spill cases, responding to vessel and pipeline pollution incidents, solving cargo loss, reviewing, and drafting charter parties, negotiating and drafting charters for bulk and other cargoes and handling vessel collision cases involving every manner of watercraft from jet-skis to ocean-going cargo vessels. This includes the full range of issues that may arise, whether it be the presumptions of fault in collision cases, damage calculation, mutual fault allocation of damages and more.

Furthermore, El Chaer Law Firm has substantial experience in the complex array of remedies and liability standards applicable to maritime wrongful death cases. Apart from that, our Lawyers provide advice on claims involving damage, loss, mis delivery or delayed delivery of cargo.

Despite the fact that maritime financial transactions are complicated, from drafting bills of lading to navigating the often confusing array of documentation and registration laws and regulations, our Lawyers thrive to resolve such complications by drafting foreign and domestic vessel purchase and sale agreements, perfecting and enforcing vessel and cargo liens, obtaining proper documentation for newly acquired vessels, releasing vessels from documentation and the full spectrum of ship mortgage, vessel bankruptcy, and vessel creditor issues.