Shipping and logistics
The role of freight forwarders has changed over recent years. Today, it is the rule rather than the exception for freight forwarders to take on, in their own names, a wide range of logistics tasks, including receipt, labelling, packaging, handling, storage, insurance, and transport of goods.
The agent role of freight forwarders has thus almost disappeared, which has given rise to complex liability and insurance law issues, including in relation to the standard terms and conditions of the shipping business, which freight forwarders, their customers as well as the parties’ insurers need to take into consideration.
Our expertise
Kromann Reumert’s maritime and transportation law group has in-depth knowledge of the shipping business, built on many years’ experience of handling shipping and logistics-related cases for domestic and international freight forwarders and their insurers as well as domestic and international importers and exporters (logistics buyers) and their insurers.
We provide solutions to all types of issues relating to the shipping business, including:
- drafting and negotiation of logistics and framework agreements between freight forwarders and their clients
- advice on a multitude of liability and insurance law issues, including application and interpretation of the standard terms and conditions applicable in the shipping business (NSAB 2000, DHAB 2007, and the General Terms of Business of the Danish Shipbrokers’ Association)
- advice on customs and taxes, including restitution
- dispute resolution between freight forwarders and their clients, including arbitration and litigation.