Practice Experience 

Attorney Gao Chao holds a Class A (3,000 kW and above) third engineer seafarer professional training certificate and a seafarer competency certificate. Through several voyages, he has systematically studied and practiced navigation safety, ship machinery, and related international conventions, and has a professional navigation technology background for handling maritime cases..

Attorney Gao provide legal services for shipping enterprises, logistics enterprises and agency enterprises for a long time, and handle a number of practical services such as bill of lading, rental, shipping, ship generation, freight generation, ship trading, etc., drafted and reviewed international cargo transportation agency contracts, bill of lading text, rental contract, cargo trust, cargo trust The types of international cargo transportation related documents, the types of sea merchant cases handled mainly include the dispute between maritime cargo transportation contracts, ship trading contract disputes, ship rental contract disputes, disputes between crew labor contract disputes, disputes between ship material supply contracts, and sea area use rights.

Representative Cases

•  Acted as an agent for a shipping company in handling a voyage charter contract dispute, and acted as an agent for a Samoan shipping company in a time charter contract dispute with a charterer in the Middle East. Acted as an agent for a logistics company in handling an international cargo transportation dispute between China and Russia.

•  On behalf of the shipowner, the crew died in Senegal and reached a settlement settlement. Acting for shipping companies to deal with the dispute over maritime insurance contracts and handle the casualties of crew. 

•  Acting for 16 crew members to handle crew members' labor contract disputes, participated in the first trial, second trial, application for execution, execution of objection, application for auction ships, and participating in all procedures. 

•  Acting for shipping enterprises to apply for mandatory enforcement cases to foreign shipping companies, providing ship sealing, ship seizure, ship assessment, and ship auction legal services. 

•  Provide legal services for shipping enterprises to draft ship chartering contracts, and separately provide regular chartering contract texts applicable to domestic trade and foreign trade. 

•  Provide perennial legal advisory services for shipping enterprises and international trade enterprises. The service contents involve drafting and reviewing business contracts such as maritime cargo transportation contracts, regular chartering contracts, and voyage chartering contracts. Draft lawyer's letters and replies for common disputes such as shortage of goods, despatch money and demurrage, default of payment for goods and ship rent, and provide legal opinions for aspects such as bill of lading business, crew management, and enterprise risk management. 

 Provide perennial legal advisory services for shipping groups, their subsidiaries and overseas affiliated companies. The business involves drafting and reviewing the Chinese and English versions of business contracts such as logistics service contracts, cargo agency contracts, maritime cargo transportation contracts, multimodal transport contracts, and international cargo transportation agency contracts; Provide legal opinions on container management, delivery of goods without presentation of the bill of lading, bill of lading business, customs clearance of goods import and export, and China-Europe Railway Express business.