Avante’s practice spans contractual and regulatory aspects of the port industry as the disputes stemming from the development of the latter. Specifically, we have experience advising on:
1. Ports and port infrastructures
- Ports and port infrastructures: regulation, concession, financing and operative
- Port services (towing contract, mooring and untie, pilotage contract, port handling contract, ship generated waste services, etc.)
2. Administrative
- Administrative Law and maritime regulation
- Regular lines
3. Environment and port security
- Marine and environmental pollution
4. Dispute resolution
- Disputes related to this industry (litigation and arbitration)
- Administrative sanction proceedings
- Liability of public authorities
- Port handling contract under the Maritime Act: II Meeting of Port and Maritime Law (8 y 9 September 2016, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander) by Julio López Quiroga and Antonio Quirós.
- Liberalisation of port services: 2016 Congress organised by the Spanish Shipping Law Association. Julio López Quiroga.
- Instituto de Empresa: sobre la nueva legislación portuaria, by Julio López Quiroga.
- Asociación Internacional de Derecho Portuario-Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares: régimen jurídico de las concesiones portuarias: reflexiones para una reforma, by Julio López Quiroga.