Lionel Noel is a Partner at TS Oon & Partners. He regularly acts for local and foreign clients i.e. shipowners, charterers, bunker suppliers, shipyards, port operators, P&I Clubs, financial institutions, commodity traders, freight forwarders, and other shipping interests.
His experience involves advising on admiralty disputes involving arrests and maritime claims against vessels, “dry” shipping claims including charterparty disputes, bill of lading claims, and cargo claims, “wet” shipping claims including casualties, salvage, general average, insurance, tonnage limitation, statutory / criminal liability, and environmental / pollution issues, shipbuilding and repair claims and claims for wrongful arrest, claims and defences in relation to collisions with vessels, damages and contamination to and mis-delivery of cargo, breach of charterparties and supply contracts, bunker claims, damage to vessels and ports, death/injury to crew, carriage/delivery/discharge of cargo including dangerous cargo and limitation of liabilities, sub-bailment on terms, exercise of lien, prohibitory and Mareva injunctions, discovery applications, subrogation, maritime lien, interveners, mortgages.
- Acted for a Chinese state-owned shipping company in obtaining a declaratory order that the full equitable and legal title to a USD650 million vessel is retained by the Chinese state-owned shipping company and orders that a Malaysian company de-register or cancel the permanent registration of the vessel from the Malaysian Port of Registry.
- Acted for a forwarding and shipping agent in an alleged breach of duty of care as suppliers of refrigerated containers and carrier of a cargo.
- Acted for cargo owners in a loss of and/or damage to bulk cargo shipped to Malaysia.
- Acted for ship repairers to recover unpaid invoices issued to shipowners for ship repair / dry-docking services rendered.
- Acted for shipowners in the recovery of a sale of a 18,500-gt cruise ship vessel in the approximate sum of RM21 million.
- Acted for numerous shipowners in claims for vessels detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) for anchoring without permission.
- Acting for a cargo owner in a dispute involving wrongful conversion of cargo with a combined claim sum of approximately USD41 million.
- Acted for a bunker supplier in the recovery of RM2 million in bunkers supplied to various vessels with the same registered owner.
- Acted for depot operators in ensuring their depot operating code and license were not removed by Malaysian Port authorities arising from the fault of other parties.
- Acting for shipowners in defending a claim for total loss of deck cargo overboard a vessel in the sum of USD1.1 million.
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