Gujarat’s coastline carries a large share of India’s cargo, and every consignment moves on a chain of documents. Booking notes, bills of lading, tally sheets, gate passes, surveys. When goods are damaged, delayed or held, those documents decide the claim.
The work
The practice acts for shippers, consignees, forwarders, transporters and port users. It pursues and defends cargo claims for damage, shortage and misdelivery. It handles the recurring money disputes of the trade, including freight, demurrage, detention and terminal charges. It drafts and negotiates the contracts the sector runs on, from logistics services and warehousing to multimodal carriage.
Vessel-side admiralty work, such as ship arrest, is conducted with specialist admiralty counsel, with the practice managing the commercial record and the client’s wider position.
How the practice approaches it
Time bars in carriage law are short and unforgiving, and survey evidence decays with every day the cargo moves. The practice defines the loss and the parties in the chain, verifies the documents of carriage against what actually happened, tests where in the chain liability sits, and preserves the claim with notices before it argues about it.