This practice area focuses on providing legal advisory services relating to and concerning shipping and clearing, and forwarding agents, charterers, cargo interests including commodity traders and cargo insurers, hull and liability insurers, shipyards, necessaries men and port operators. We advise and assist or 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 Cameroonian-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 licenses for foreign-owned ships for cabotage trade in Cameroon and advising on compliance with the applicable laws dealing with coastal and inland shipping in Cameroon, covering all areas of admiralty jurisdiction and practice.
Our legal advisory on this branch of law also extends to boating accidents, commercial ship accidents, and cruise ship accidents.
MAJOR TRANSACTIONS:
- Advising a shipping company on a USD $20 Million Vessel financing transaction with an international oil trader;
- Advised an indigenous dredging Company and a multinational oil corporation for Dredging Works in the Littoral Region (Capital and Maintenance Dredging);
- Legal advisory services and drafting of the Land Lease Agreement two major African Dredging companies;
- Advised, negotiated and prepared Sand Dredging agreement between two indigenous dredging companies in Cameroon;
- Advised on the Sales and Purchase Agreement for the sale and supply of dredged sand between a dredging entity and Comphlex Limited;
- Representing an indigenous maritime and dredging company on its compliance issues with the Ministry of Mines;
- Procurement of permits and licenses for maritime and dredging services companies.
- Advised on negotiations with land owners and property owners for accommodation of dredging staff;
- Rendered security services negotiations and agreements for provision of security services for equipment and personnel of dredging operations.
