BN&F - Transport, Shipping & Trade

Transport, Shipping and Trade

BN&F provides supply chain management counseling to clients to help integrate and synchronize supply-chain information flows. Clients benefit from our extensive experience in negotiating third-party logistics agreements, (“3PL”), freight forwarding agreements, motor carrier contracts, bills of lading, property broker agreements, Non-Vessel Ocean Common Carrier (“NVOCC”) agreements, rail contracts, and agreements covering intermodal transportation. BN&F’s counseling experience lies in areas of Admiralty and Maritime Law, marine, air, motor and rail transportation, and international shipping, distribution, uniform commercial code, INCOTERMS, import/export and trade matters. BN&F also litigates commercial and cargo insurance coverage disputes, trucking industry defense, and has developed innovative contractual strategies that minimize risk to carriers, freight forwarders and brokers of property, with a view to achieving prompt and favorable resolutions of disputes regarding loss, damage or delay of goods in transit. Representation has included insurance companies, manufacturing companies, distributors, retailers, trucking companies, surface and air freight forwarders, transportation brokers, logistics companies and commercial shippers, importers and exporters of freight.

Chair: Steven C. Weiss