Transportation Disputes - Marine, Aviation and Energy

Disputes in the fields of shipping, international transportation and international sale of goods regularly mediate successfully.  Settling in mediation allows parties to resume their trading relations (where appropriate), to put time consuming disputes behind them and to concentrate their energies in the business of trading. These technical areas are, by comparison, expensive and time consuming to take to Court or arbitration.  Many parties have on-going trading opportunities that are much better served by a facilitative process that allows the parties to re-build trust.

Areas which are regularly successfully resolved in mediation include:

Shipping and International Transportation:

• Charterparty, bill of lading and cargo damage disputes
• Disputes under MOA’s for sale and purchase
• Demurrage disputes
• Safe port disputes
• CMR/CMI and other disputes for international transportation by road and rail
• Disputes under York-Antwerp Rules; disputes under The Hague/Hague-Visby Rules; disputes under the Carriage of Good by Sea Act 1971
• Shipbuilding disputes

International Sale of Goods:

• Cargo damage
• Demurrage under sales contracts
• Delay disputes

Aviation:

• Transportation of goods by air
• Transportation of passengers by air
• Aircraft leasing

Energy:

• Oil and gas disputes; pipeline, upstream, downstream
• Engineering disputes
• Disputes relating to the construction of power stations

Environmental disputes:

• Disputes relating to the leaking of gas or oil
• Damage to property
• Personal injury claims

For advice on the In Place of Strife mediators with the right experience for your case, please contact our senior case manager, Joanne Claypole.