The Maritime Comprehensive Legal Affairs Department is a professional legal service department of Guangdong Kingbridge Law Firm undertaking sea-related disputes, with the particularity and professionalism of providing services for various sea-related legal affairs such as maritime, marine environment, maritime business, and customs.

Its business scope includes maritime cargo transportation contract disputes, charter ship disputes, bill of lading disputes, maritime area use disputes, marine environmental protection damage disputes, freight forwarding disputes, sea-related administrative disputes, maritime smuggling, dumping, smuggling, fishery and other sea-related professional criminal defense legal affairs, as well as marine engineering, marine resource development, island utilization and other legal affairs that have been growing with the development of the national marine economy in recent years.

Comprehensive legal affairs related to the sea have special legal procedures and legal requirements, and the characteristics of evidence requirements are different from ordinary civil and commercial legal affairs. Most of the comprehensive legal affairs related to the sea are under the exclusive jurisdiction of maritime courts, and there is a trend of gradually centralizing the jurisdiction of comprehensive maritime legal affairs in China.

In order to meet the needs of customers, Guangdong Kingbridge Law Firm is composed of a number of lawyers with rich working experience in sea-related administrative departments and maritime units, providing more professional and refined legal services and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of clients to the greatest extent.

1. Legal affairs such as disputes over contracts of carriage of goods by sea, bills of lading disputes, freight forwarding disputes, etc.;

2. Comprehensive legal services related to the sea, such as the use of maritime areas, marine environmental protection, marine engineering, development or protection of marine resources, utilization and protection of offshore islands;

3. Legal affairs such as ship construction and leasing, collision and touch between ships and marine facilities;

4. Legal affairs such as fishing operations in distant and offshore fisheries, fishing and aquaculture, insurance and labor of fishing vessels and persons.

5. Sea-related administrative and criminal legal business, such as illegal use of sea space, damage to the marine environment, illegal fishing, smuggling, illegal immigration, etc.