Department profile

Transportation: Shipping
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- Ship-building contracts, contracts of purchase and sale, financing for the construction and acquisition of ships, mortgages, vessel registration, including registration in the "MAR" (International Ship Registry of Madeira)
- Vessel use, charter parties, and commercial contracts related to maritime transport and maritime labour law
- Maritime litigation, including the seizure of ships, coercive collection of maritime claims, collision, liability, and national and international arbitration
- Recreational navigation (including construction, acquisition, classification and registration, as well as subsequent events) and maritime tourism
- Contracts relating to commercial aviation, including dry and wet leasing of aircraft, air passenger transportation and air freight, events and accidents, liability, as well as national and international litigation
- Contracts relating to the ownership of private aircraft, including fractional ownership agreements, regulatory issues and registrations
- National and international transport of goods by road (CMR Convention), including the transport of dangerous goods (ADR Agreement).
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