Maritime Law


Our qualified lawyers are experienced in the following maritime matters:

  • Drafting maritime contracts, reviewing of investments and providing legal assistance.
  • Drafting contracts for the sale, purchase, and building of vessels.
  • Marine insurance.
  • Issues arising out of maritime pollution.
  • Seizure of vessels before or after applying for a case.
  • Appeal against seizure of a vessel and its release.

In brief, our firm deals with all kinds of maritime disputes arising due to a breach of contractual obligations.

Maritime Law UAE

Maritime law of UAE is complex, as the nation has one of the busiest ocean ports of the world in the Emirate of Dubai. At the point when you are working in the Emirates’ oceanic industry, you need the help of an extremely qualified lawyers of Maritime Law Firm in Dubai for any legal issue faced by your maritime business.

Best Maritime Lawyers In Dubai & Abu Dhabi, UAE

Awatif Mohammad Shoqi Advocates & Legal Consultancy team of maritime lawyers possess in depth knowledge and insight over maritime law and are exceptionally skillful and updated over developing or recent enactments administrative prerequisites issued for this industry, permitting our firm to offer best legal advice or opinion to all our clients based on forward-thinking research, persevering collaboration, and past experience and specific involvement in the said area of law.

Our different approach and aptitude towards our clients empowers us to offer our customers the best suitable advice in all issues identified with maritime law, sea transportation and insurance of ships and maritime litigation cases in the country. Our dedication in our cases and our commitment towards our clients assist them in achieving their maritime business efficiency goals as we offer proficient legal assistance to smoothen your business contracts and processes along with a careful consideration towards arbitration or litigation in any specific maritime matter.

Our qualified lawyers are experienced in following maritime matters:

  • Drafting maritime contracts, reviewing of investments and providing legal assistance.
  • Drafting contracts for the sale, purchase, and building of vessels.
  • Marine insurance.
  • Issues arising out of maritime pollution.
  • Seizure of vessels before or after applying for a case.
  • Appeal against seizure of a vessel and its release.

Our expert group of maritime lawyers are consistently prepared to provide completely relevant and updated advice for any matter concerning maritime within the country or for neighbouring countries through our affiliation associations. The extent of our UAE maritime law expertise ranges across wide spectrum of maritime issues ever recorded within the Emirate of Dubai or in any other Emirate of UAE.

Our emphasis on high assistance quality has instructed us to give close consideration to our customers. At the point when you approach us with your issues identified with maritime law, you will discover us listening eagerly. Joined with exhaustive examination, this quality presents our defence guidance on point and remarkably pertinent.

In addition, our firm also deals with all kinds of maritime disputes arising due to a breach of contractual obligations. There are some national Laws and ministerial decrees notwithstanding the federal Maritime Code with respect to vessel enrolment, maintaining, and limitations on the exercises of the unfamiliar flag holding vessel and order of port exercises as per the port statute. These are likewise appropriate in each individual Emirate.

It is certainly difficult to enrol a vessel in UAE without 100% shareholding of a UAE local individual or an organization having a local shareholder possessing 51% of shares in the company. In any event if the vessel is sold to a company or an individual in a foreign country the registration of such vessel in the country will be dropped. The UAE government never permits an unfamiliar or a foreign proprietor to get his vessels enlisted in UAE. It is constantly kept up in UAE that the proprietor of any vessel organization should have the citizenship as UAE nationals. The foregoing are some intricate issues which can only be discussed or advised by a Maritime Law Firm in Dubai as they will not just assist you by extracting you out from a problem but will help you in understanding the maritime laws of the country for any future references.