Much of our work has a maritime component. Harris & Moure represents both domestic and international clients in admiralty, fisheries and other maritime areas and serves corporate and business clients in all facets of the maritime industries. Our maritime practice includes:

• Vessel arrests in United States and foreign jurisdictions
• Purchase and sale of vessels and other maritime assets
• Vessel management and product sales agreements
• Demise, time, and space charter agreements
• Resolving maritime lien and ship mortgage disputes
• Vessel documentation, inspection, registration, and flagging
• Domestic and international maritime litigation
• Marine insurance
• Vessel financing for lenders, borrowers, and charterers
• Product liability and vessel repair litigation
• Fishing rights applications and disputes
• Foreign and domestic joint venture agreements
• Defense of governmental agency enforcement actions
• Cruise Ship Litigation
• Passenger Injury Litigation
• Jones Act Cases/Maritime injury cases

We are known worldwide for our expertise in international vessel and fish product arrests. Our attorneys have successfully resolved vessel and/or product arrests in the Bahamas, Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United States (Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and Washington) and Vietnam.

In addition to our International Admiralty and our International Maritime practice in the commercial arena, we also have substantial experience in assisting yacht owners with their yacht law issues. To learn more about our yacht law practice, please go to our Yacht Law page.

We have a long history of litigating against cruise ship companies, particularly Holland America, whose tickets require litigation be here in Seattle. We have handled cases involving numerous different cruise lines such as Renissance, Commodore, Holland America, Princess, NCL, and Royal Caribbean, including the arrest of a Commodore cruise ship, the ENCHANTED SUN, and AN Olympia Cruise line vessel, THE OLYMPIA VOYAGER, on behalf of creditors. To learn more about our cruise ship practice, please go to our cruise ship law site.

To learn more about how we can help you with your admiralty/maritime issues, we urge you to contact us. Our initial consultations are always free.