
Transport & Logistics

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LEBUHN & PUCHTA advises transport and logistics businesses and their insurance companies on all aspects of carriage by road, rail, air, inland waterways and sea, and represents its clients in legal disputes.
We are instructed across a very wide range of issues, including in large and smaller cases of cargo damage, cross-border multi-party disputes, the drafting of standard terms and conditions as well as special contracts.
We regularly represent German and foreign insurance companies pursuing recourse claims.
Owing to our recognised expertise in maritime law, we are frequently instructed in cases of complex multi-modal transport that include a maritime leg. Shipping work, including cargo claims, general average, bill of lading and charter party disputes are part of the core activities of the firm.
- We have developed for our clients standard freight forwarding conditions for carriage of goods by rail.
- We have given substantial advice to a German freight forwarder client in connection with the drafting of framework agreements with German and foreign customers.
- We have acted for a client in connection with large claims resulting from the derailing of a goods train. We coordinated its defence in the legal proceedings brought in foreign courts and arbitration tribunals and secured its recourse claims.
- We act for German freight forwarders defending claims for damages brought by the transport accident insurers following the loss of the cargo due to the sinking of the “MOL COMFORT”.
- We have acted for German freight forwarder clients defending claims resulting from the interruption of a carriage by sea on account of a suspected infringement of Iran sanctions.
- In connection with anti-dumping taxes imposed on imported goods, we have acted for freight forwarders in their claim for an indemnity.