Demarest e Almeida's Shipping team's work is focused on operations within the most varied issues related to the maritime activity, adding to the expertise of professionals acquired from dealing with issues linked to other important areas of law, such as Contracts, Banking, Environmental, Litigation and Arbitration and Tax. We have a team composed by members of strategic departments of the firm, always updated and highly qualified to provide counseling and assistance in the shipping area.
Among the activities carried out by the Shipping team, we may emphasize:
• Maritime law Consulting;
• Assistance on transports agreements, charter parties, COAs (contract of afreightment), agency agreements and untypical agreements build to regulate special projects as well;
• Assistance on construction, repair, acquisition and operations of carriage;
• Incorporation of Brazilian Shipping Companies - EBN and provision for relevant authorizations and licenses;
• Assistance in regulatory issues before the Maritime Authority, Brazilian National Agency of Maritime Transports - ANTAQ, Brazilian National Agency of Oil - ANP and Antitrust authorities;
• Registration of shipowners and vessels before the Maritime Tribunal;
• Assistance on hull, machinery and P&I insurance contracting procedures, within Brazil and abroad;
• Assistance on International Insurance negotiations for ships registered before Brazilian Special Registrar - REB and on the structuring/assessment of insurance scheme for special activities and operations;
• Assistance on ship financing, mainly in construction performed with credits from Merchant Navy Fund - FMM;
• Assistance on the recovery of insurance credits, such as premium and indemnities in judicial claims brought by Insurers;
• Assistance of clients interested in the use of vessels in maritime and port support activities;
• Follow-up on maritime pollution cases running in environmental bodies and the Pblic Prosecutor Office, and also follow-up on such cases within judicial spheres;
• Assistance on tax and customs cargo matters;
• Litigation within the Maritime Tribunal and Judicial Courts in general.
Among the activities carried out by the Shipping team, we may emphasize:
• Maritime law Consulting;
• Assistance on transports agreements, charter parties, COAs (contract of afreightment), agency agreements and untypical agreements build to regulate special projects as well;
• Assistance on construction, repair, acquisition and operations of carriage;
• Incorporation of Brazilian Shipping Companies - EBN and provision for relevant authorizations and licenses;
• Assistance in regulatory issues before the Maritime Authority, Brazilian National Agency of Maritime Transports - ANTAQ, Brazilian National Agency of Oil - ANP and Antitrust authorities;
• Registration of shipowners and vessels before the Maritime Tribunal;
• Assistance on hull, machinery and P&I insurance contracting procedures, within Brazil and abroad;
• Assistance on International Insurance negotiations for ships registered before Brazilian Special Registrar - REB and on the structuring/assessment of insurance scheme for special activities and operations;
• Assistance on ship financing, mainly in construction performed with credits from Merchant Navy Fund - FMM;
• Assistance on the recovery of insurance credits, such as premium and indemnities in judicial claims brought by Insurers;
• Assistance of clients interested in the use of vessels in maritime and port support activities;
• Follow-up on maritime pollution cases running in environmental bodies and the Pblic Prosecutor Office, and also follow-up on such cases within judicial spheres;
• Assistance on tax and customs cargo matters;
• Litigation within the Maritime Tribunal and Judicial Courts in general.
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