WK’s marine team provides a broad range of legal services to those involved in the shipping, maritime, fishing, aquaculture, and logistics industries across the APAC region. We advise on significant litigated and non-litigated matters across the marine industry as well as policy drafting and marine coverage issues.
Our experience spans casualty crisis management, ship arrests, judicial sales of vessels, cargo claims, marine insurance advisory work, charterparty disputes, ship repairer liability and logistics. We also advise on insolvency in a shipping context, cross-border transactions, trade and sales contracts, and wider world-trade issues. Our team regularly handles land-based transport disputes under trade, transport, shipping and marine insurance law. Through the integration of the Oceanlaw team we are specialists in:
- Fisheries Law
- Maritime & Shipping Law
- International Trade Law
- Aquaculture Law
- Resource Management / Environmental Law
- Māori Fisheries & Aquaculture
The team is actively involved in the industry, including regularly presenting at marine insurance conferences. Through this involvement, we have established valuable relationships with the industry’s most experienced loss adjusters and experts who we can call on to assist when required.