Our Asia shipping team comprises a group of leading marine specialists, including two master mariners. We have won countless awards and are top ranked for our shipping work by the leading legal directories.
Clyde & Co has been a leading shipping firm for over 70 years and we have one of the world’s leading practices in marine casualties. We have six master mariners worldwide and two are permanently based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Used as investigators and consultants, they give an insightful and technical edge to our legal shipping advice.
We handle all types of marine claims and liabilities and have been
involved in major litigation in the region such as the collision of two
passenger ferries off Macau and a collision in South Korea where a Chinese-owned vessel sank and resulted in loss of life and oil pollution.
We also assisted a syndicate of foreign shipowners in completing the purchase of several vessels from a major Chinese shipyard, acted on behalf of hull underwriters to investigate the cause of grounding and a possible unsafe port claim in Indonesia, and protected the underwriters’ position in relation to repairs undertaken in Singapore. We also acted for the cargo interests in a collision which resulted in the biggest oil pollution incident in Singapore waters.
Our shipping practice is mature and cutting-edge. We act across the shipping industry for shipowners, yards, operators, managers, charterers, financiers, P&I clubs, insurers and underwriters.
Our advice includes:
- Charterparty disputes
- Collision and salvage
- Criminal prosecutions
- Insurance issues
- Pilotage
- Pollution liabilities
- Transhipment
- Wreck removal