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The group at Norton Rose Fulbright is well-equipped to handle the full range of maritime law matters. Transactional expertise includes ship financing, importation and registration and bespoke contracts of affreightment, while on the contentious side, the team is experienced in acting on maritime incidents and casualties, pollution, cargo claims, passenger claims and insurance disputes. Shelley Chapelski steers the practice and specializes in both transactional and contentious aspects of maritime law, including maritime contracts, torts, liability claims, creditor’s remedies and marine insurance matters. Key Vancouver-based partner Andrew Stainer has substantial experience with contentious matters involving casualty and emergency response, such as oil spills, fires, floods, injuries and fatalities, maritime collisions and cargo claims.

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Key clients

  • Seaspan ULC
  • Western Pacific Marine
  • Victoria Shipyards Company
  • Bridgemans Services
  • Vancouver Shipyards
  • Prince Rupert Port Authority
  • Harlock Murray Underwriting
  • Neptune Bulk Terminals (Canada)
  • SAAM Towage Canada
  • TotalEnergy (through its subsidiary Atlantic Trading)
  • Travelers Insurance (London)
  • Tidewater Canada
  • Seaspan Energy
  • HaiSea Tugs JV
  • Maersk & its P&I insurers (GARD)
  • Martech Polar
  • NorthStandard P&I Club
  • DNV Group AS
  • Ship Source Oil Pollution Fund of Canada
  • Tindall Riley (Britannia P&I Club)

Work highlights

  • Negotiated the use of a former ferry as a 'floatel', providing accommodation for over 600 workers at a water access-only LNG terminal construction site in Squamish BC.
  • Negotiated and drafted a tripartite agreement between Neptune Bulk Terminals, SAAM Towage Canada and Teck to build two battery operated ship docking tugs in Turkey.
  • Acted for the owner of the SM Mumbai and its P&I Club in relation to a multi-million dollar claim from the Department of Fisheries & Oceans resulting from damage to a lengthy wall of pilings on the Fraser River caused by a container ship.

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Shelley Chapelski