Shipping: Southern China (PRC Firms)

About

Provided by Huang & Huang Co. Law Firm

Areas of expertise

• Cargo claims (loss, damage, shortage, non-delivery, misdelivery involving all types of goods);
• Charter Party disputes;
• Hull insurance and P&I Insurance;
• Collision;
• Grounding, fire at sea, salvage and wreck removal;
• Oil pollution;
• General average;
• Damage to subsea cable, fixed or floating objects;
• Crew, stevedore, passenger injury and death;
• Ship building and repair;
• Ship sale, purchase and finance;
• Arrest and release of ships;
• Lien, property preservation, evidence preservation, maritime injunction, and constitution of limitation fund for maritime claims
• Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards and judgments in China.

Categories of clients

Shipowners, charterers, P&I Clubs, Hull underwriters and other insurers, ports and harbours, airlines, freight forwarders, logistics companies

Recent work highlights

1. Successfully represented claimant in PICC Zhongshan v CPIC Dongguan (dispute over double insurance) before China' Supreme Court. The case was selected into GAZETTE OF THE SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT [2023] Issue 9 and included by Informa UK plc. in its Chinese Maritime and Commercial Law Report [2023] Vol 4.

2. Successfully represented defendant in Guangzhou Shipping Materials Supply Co. Ltd. v TAN BINH CO., LTD (collision) which was selected for“Typical Cases on the Application of International Treaties and International Practices in Foreign-related Civil and Commercial Cases” by China’s Supreme Court in December 2023.