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    Maritime (Wet & Dry)

    Van Steenderen MainportLawyers is ranked as market leader in the maritime, transport & logistics, insurance and international trade & energy sectors. Our lawyers have a long and enviable reputation for dealing with all sorts of legal issues in these fields. Basically we distinguish the following areas of interest: 

    .         Marine Casualties / Emergency Response  

    We provide advice and litigation skills in connection with collision, salvage, wreck removal and pollution liabilities, and we assist our clients in dealing with interventions by local and state authorities and any media exposure which a case may attract. 

    .         Dry Shipping

    These cases are in respect of P&I, FD&D and charterer's liability, cargo and H&M claims.The economic downturn is causing many charterers to default on charters and this has led to an increase of work since summer 2008.Our firm i.a. has assisted owners of vessels that were faced with the sudden bankruptcy of EWL.We have organised the disposal of some 1300 teu's that were on board of various vessels located in the Caribbean and in Europe.In this type of distress work we are particularly experienced.

     .         Air, Inland Waterways, Rail and Road Carriage

    Whatever the mode of transport we accept instructions from carriers and their liability insurers, or from shippers / consignees. We are dealing with cases where the Montreal and Warsaw Conventions apply (air law), the CMR Convention (road), or any of the general terms and conditions prevailing in the international carriage of goods over inland waterways.

     .         International Trade & Commodities - Oil, Chemicals, Biofuels & LNG

    We  act for some of the leading trading houses as well as their counterparts in the production, trading, financing, transport and end use of soft and hard commodities. We offer support in drafting and negotiating contracts, looking after securities and insurances, and advise on documentary credit issues that may arise.   

    .          Port Services

    We have extensive experience in all sorts of legal aspects related to port services, such as:

      • Customs
      • Agency
      • Stevedoring
      • Forwarding

    .         Physical Distribution

    The primary aim of any business is to provide customer satisfaction in a manner which results in profit for that company. In the physical sense this means that manufactured products need to be transferred from the place of their manufacture to the place of consumption. Physical Distribution Management is concerned with ensuring products of a certain brand, type and description are in the right place at the right time.  Our services include the tailoring of the contracts between the different intermediaries in this network of manufacturers, stockholders, forwarders, carriers, etc.

     .          Debt Collection

    The Netherlands has ratified the International Arrest Convention (done at Brussels on 10 May 1952). Consequently creditors may arrest either the particular ship in respect of which the maritime claim arose,or any other ship which is owned by the person who was,at the time when the maritime claim arose, the owner of the ship in question. An immediate response will be made to an instruction to arrest a ship. Depending on the time of the day and the exact location of the vessel to be arrested it will take between 1.5 and 5 hours to effect the arrest. There is no need for a Power of Attorney to be executed and only in very rare cases will the Court order the creditor to out up a security to secure a potential claim for unlawfull arrest.

     .          Insurance