Abdelmonem Achour is a Tunisian maritime lawyer.
He specialises in both commercial and the litigation aspects of shipping, admiralty, marine insurance, transport, logistics, international trade and marine environmental law, as well as maritime casualty response and subrogated recoveries. He heads up the practice’s Admiralty and Shipping department and is the Transport Headlight leader.
He has advised a number of commodity traders and their insurers, underwriters and brokers in international trade and recovery matters. Having obtained his BA LLB at the University of Tunis, he was admitted as an Attorney around ten years ago, is the senior partner of the firm and heads up the practice’s Admiralty and Shipping department. He also obtained a post-graduate diploma in Corporate Law.
Nakilat, the shipping arm of Qatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector, has expanded its joint venture with Greek shipping company Maran Ventures Inc. to include two new LNG vessels.
Maran Nakilat Co. Ltd. was established in 2005 with four jointly-owned vessels, and the agreement has been expanded on three occasions. The new agreement increases the number of vessels jointly-owned by Nakilat and Maran Gas to 13, confirming Nakilat’s wholly and jointly-owned LNG fleet as the largest in the world.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg has ruled against Italy’s request for India to provisionally release two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in February 2012 while on anti-piracy duty onboard the Italian oil tanker Enrica Lexie.
ITLOS also ordered both parties to stop all legal proceedings relating to the Enrica Lexie incident, saying that an international arbitration hearing in The Hague will rule on the dispute.
Shipbuilding conglomerate Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) is facing a lawsuit on the grounds of an alleged fraud against individual investors.
Namely, South Korean law firm Hannuri Law has revealed plans to file a joint lawsuit in September against the shipbuilder and Deloitte Anjin accounting firm on behalf of retail investors, who are reported to have lost over KRW 2.2 trillion (USD 1.9 billion) following DSME’s announced loss.
Our law firm announce its new specialised website on ship arrest and release in Tunisia.
Achour law firm has launched today its new specialised website on all legal aspects of ship arrest and release in all commercial ports of Tunisia according to the Tunisian maritime commerce code.
The work of the firm on vessel arrests will therefore cover all the Tunisian commercial ports: Port of Bizerte Menzel Bourguiba, Port of La Goulette, Port of Rades, Port of Sousse, Port of Sfax, port of Gabes, Port of Zarzis.
