COVID-19: Issues under Shipping Contracts 2 April 2020
In this article, we outline some of the key issues affecting a variety of shipping contracts in light of COVID-19.
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In this article, we outline some of the key issues affecting a variety of shipping contracts in light of COVID-19.
We advised Grindrod Shipping Holdings, the shipping arm of South African transportation and logistics provider Grindrod, on its spin-off from its parent and its US$320m primary listing on NASDAQ and secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
An introduction to non-payment insurance in the shipping industry.
On 23 March 2023, we published part two of ‘The Sustainability Imperative’. One of the key findings in the follow-up report is that shipowners have become more collaborative. In 2021, two-thirds said they would like to form partnerships to pursue innovation. Now, 56% are already in an ESG-linked tie-up.
COSCO Tanker and COSCO Shipping Tanker (Dalian) Seaman and Ship Management Co., as well as four other Chinese companies, have been placed on the list of “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control. This article looks into the effects of these sanctions.
We are delighted to have advised MPC Container Ships ASA on this benchmark transaction which is of strategic importance for our client.
Watson Farley & Williams has advised portfoliomanagement, the winding-up agency of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein, on the due diligence for the sale of a number of vessels that are part of its remaining shipping loan portfolio to a bidding consortium comprising the Bank of America and Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP.
The outgoing administration of US President Joe Biden added several prominent Chinese companies to a list of “Chinese military companies” maintained by the Department of Defense.
Ship-owning joint ventures are a common occurrence in today’s market. This article explores the “Steel Split”, a mechanism that is somewhat unique to maritime joint venture documents.
Italy Partner Furio Samela has written a feature piece on Italy’s shipping finance market for online Italian magazine Shipping Italy as part of the publication’s overview of the industry over past year.
Securitisation principles and certain structuring efficiencies were utilised to enable Fleetscape to offer sale-and-leaseback or unitranche financing on highly competitive terms.
A recent decision has widened the scope for state entities to rely on foreign state immunity to resist enforcement of arbitral awards in Australia.
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