Shipping, Transport and International Trade
The four partners at Ross & Co each have some thirty years experience in dealing with the resolution of shipping and international trade disputes on behalf of clients. John Blacker, Jane Martineau and Julian Gray are all also admitted in Hong Kong and both John and Julian have lived and worked there. Julian Gray has also spent many years practising in Singapore and Dubai. All four partners have given evidence before foreign courts in international trade disputes.
We routinely advise on:
- Shipbuilding disputes
- Offshore contracting disputes
- Charterparty disputes
- Bunker disputes
- P&I/FD&D and hull claims
- Cargo claims
- CMR claims
- Oil and gas contractual issues
- Cross border trade disputes
- Arrest and release from arrest
Our clients are commercial enterprises. The years of experience that we have had ensure that we can both advise on and assist in resolving our clients’ commercial problems in a manner that suits their businesses. Apart from advising our clients in literally hundreds of marine arbitrations over many years, we have assisted them in court actions in England and Wales and in numerous countries around the world in relation to their shipping, insurance and trading problems, often acting in conjunction with an extensive network of foreign lawyers, developed over many years.
Our clients know that whatever service they need, shipping and international trade is a 24 hour a day business and we are available to them at all times.















