Shipping/Maritime

We offer legal services relating to shipping and clearing, and forwarding agents, charterers, cargo interests including commodity traders and cargo insurers, hull and liability insurers, shipyards and port operators. We advise and assist our clients on all aspects of maritime law, including but not limited to enforcement of judgments and awards; enforcement of mortgages and other securities, registering ships;

the eligibility of Nigerian-owned ships and the licensing and temporary registration of foreign-owned ships in the Special Register for Vessels and Ship Owning Companies engaged in Cabotage trade; procuring and renewing Ministerial waivers and licences for foreign-owned ships for cabotage trade in Nigeria.

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