The Maritime and Admiralty Legal Affairs Department of Fidelity specializes in legal services related to shipping, international trade, and marine insurance. The department’s lawyers possess systematic and solid knowledge of maritime law and have extensive experience in handling maritime and admiralty disputes. Many of them also have substantial practical experience in the shipping, trade, and insurance industries.

Fidelity’s Maritime and Admiralty Legal Affairs Department comprehensive legal services covering maritime litigation and arbitration, and provides non-litigation services in areas such as shipbuilding, sale and purchase, financial leasing, financing, and mergers and acquisitions of port and shipping enterprises.

The department’s clients include shipyards, shipowners, ship operators, charterers, port terminals, logistics companies, import and export traders, insurance companies, P&I clubs, banks, and financial leasing companies.

Scope of Legal Services

New shipbuilding, second-hand ship sale and purchase, and related financing matters, covering

◇Shipbuilding;

◇Ship sale and purchase;

◇Ship repair and modification;

◇Financing arrangements in shipbuilding and sale transactions;

◇Ship mortgage;

◇Ship finance leasing;

◇Ship ownership and registration.

Maritime and admiralty dispute resolution and non-litigation services covering disputes arising from ships, cargo transportation, and bills of lading, covering

◇Contracts for carriage of goods by sea;

◇Bill of lading disputes;

◇Charter party contracts;

◇Contracts for ship contracting, operation, and management;

◇Ship agency, freight forwarding, warehousing, and logistics;

◇Ship collision, salvage, towage, general average, and related matters;

◇Marine pollution and maritime tort disputes;

◇Maritime property preservation, evidence preservation, maritime injunctions, and limitation of liability fund proceedings;

◇Port and terminal operation disputes;

◇Seafarers’ employment and service contracts;

◇Maritime liens and ship priorities.

International trade and marine insurance services related to maritime cargo transportation, covering

◇International sale of goods contracts;

◇Letters of credit;

◇Cargo transportation insurance;

◇Protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance;

◇Hull and machinery insurance, offshore platform insurance, and insurance for port and terminal facilities.