Hallowell Law and its attorneys advise and represent clients throughout the East and Central European region with respect to shipping, maritime and transport law matters.

The Firm has assisted and represented maritime and transport clients with respect to the arrests of vessels in the ports of Tallinn, Estonia; Riga and Ventspils, Latvia; the port of Saint Petersburg in Russia; the port of Gdansk in Poland; the port of Klaipeda in Lithuania; and in Odessa, in Ukraine.

Hallowell Law can assist clients with maritime and transport matters related to the carriage of goods over land and by air. Among the Firm’s clients have been trucking and forwarding companies in Austria, Russia, the Netherlands, Finland, Latvia, Spain and Ukraine.

Among the maritime and transport matters in recent years, Hallowell Law has advised clients from a wide variety of nations:

-Representation of Romania’s “Tarom” national airline;

-Legal advisory for Sri Lankan Airlines in Ukraine and Lithuania;

-Legal advisory for the United Kingdom shipping company “Baltic Forest Lines”;

-Review and preparation of legal agreements, including employment agreements for a major Finnish maritime company in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia;

-Preparation of joint venture agreements with Tallinn State Airport Company in Estonia;

-Privatization of Estonia’s leading bus company and the Tallinn, Estonia, international motor coach station;

-Representation in maritime and transport matters of the Latvian cargo shipping company, “Latvian waterways”;

-General legal counsel for “Estonian State Railways” in contract matters.