Interlegal drafted new combined service agreement on cargo handling

The Client – large Ukrainian sea port operator engaged, in particular, in rendering services of export & import operations, as well as logistic operator, freight forwarder and custodian, applied to Interlegal for drafting a combined service agreement which would include terms for cargo handling (attributed to various types of contracts), with the property of other state-owned sea port operator involved.

According to the Client’s request, the parties to such agreement were both state-owned and private sea port operators, whose activity depended on a third party – natural monopoly (Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority). Subject of the agreement were various types and kinds of cargo.

Interlegal task was to analyze prospects of such agreement, to foresee the risks with regards to customs, labour, civil and commercial law and to draft the agreement itself. A crucial aspect of the agreement was the need to take into consideration marginal balance of the parties’ interests in preventing violation of antitrust legislation, since the state-owned port operator is deemed as prevailing at the appropriate market.

Interlegal lawyers provided recommendations and formed such list of the parties’ rights and obligations, serving as grounds for new combined service agreement on cargo handling.

Interlegal associate attorney Dmitri Ochkolias led the case.

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