We offer competent legal advice on all matters of transport and shipping law, international trade law and insurance law. Our law office is based in Hamburg in Germany.
We assist in the drawing up of contracts and general business terms, claims handling, representation in court and arbitration proceedings including interlocutory actions and enforcement proceedings.
According to our practice areas most of our clients are companies from the transport, forwarding, shipping and logistics industry, trading companies and companies from the insurance industry from Germany and abroad.
We provide our efficient services strictly subject to the interests of our clients. In case of an emergency, we are available to our clients at all hours.
3 April 2008
The question of causality is not governed by the CMR. The Regional Court of Berlin had to decide a case of a theft of temperature sensitive goods. Under normal circumstances article 29 CMR could have been an option. Read more.
5 March 2008
If under multimodal contracts of carriage goods are damaged during transport it is of importance to prove where the damage occurred to determine which limitations of liability apply to the case. The German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) recently rendered a judgement on this question. Read more.