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Maritime

We offer advisory to a broad spectrum of corporate clients from vessel owners to charterers, terminal operators to marine insurers, financial institutions to oil and gas companies on a host of legal issues related to ship financing and mortgages, cabotage financing, ship sale and purchase, time and bareboat charters, flag state registration, contracts of carriage, marine insurance, shipbuilding and conversion, construction of terminals and port-related infrastructure, offshore oil and gas assets, maritime arbitration and litigation, broad transactional work and general regulatory compliance.
Our expertise also covers the legal, regulatory and policy issues relating to the shipping industry.

Insights

Nigerian Maritime Industry Wrap-Up 2022

It is beyond cavil that the Covid-19 pandemic had a very deleterious impact on the Nigerian maritime industry in 2020, however measures by the Nigerian government and relevant stakeholders in the industry led to a slow but steady rebound of the industry in 2021. In the course of 2021, there were significant developments in the industry, such as the Court of Appeal’s notable decision on jurisdiction over maritime labour claims, on-going review of critical maritime legislation by the National Assembly, continued efforts by the government to rid the nation’s waters of maritime criminals, etc. In our Wrap-Up of the Nigerian maritime industry in 2021, some of the notable developments in the industry in 2021 are highlighted, in addition to our outlook on possible developments in the industry in 2022.
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Agribusiness	Power & Renewable Energy	Maritime
Construction & Real Estate	Technology	Oil & Gas
Industry & Manufacturing	Aviation	Retail & Consumer Products
Insurance	Health Care	Telecommunications
Mining & Metals	Infrastructure & Utilities

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