Hicksons has an experienced and world renowned Transport, Trade and Energy team representing Australian and internationally based clients.

In an era of rapidly growing domestic and global trade, Hicksons Transport, Trade and Energy team know how to help you grow and prosper your business.

Based in Sydney, Partner Derek Luxford heads a team which is very experienced in shipping and all modes of transport, logistics, trade, energy and insurance. The team advises on all aspects of:

• shipping
• aviation
• road and rail
• multimodal transport and logistics
• trade and trade finance
• sale of goods and commodities
• export and import
• marine, aviation, transit, export credit and political risk insurance
• re-insurance
• energy, oil and gas
• fishing, whaling and aquaculture
• agriculture and primary production
• product liability and trade practices, and
• dangerous goods, contamination and pollution. 

The team advises clients on the legal framework and commercial background which embraces international and domestic trade and the carriage of goods including all aspects of insurance and finance.

Clients in the transport sector include cargo owners, ship and other transport owners and operators, freight forwarders, stevedores, logistics providers, trade financiers, and insurers and re-insurers.

Our trade practice embraces exporters and importers, commodity traders, primary producers and manufacturers and their insurers and financiers.

In the energy sector, the team represents onshore and offshore explorers, operators, suppliers and their insurers.

The team works in all aspects of legal services by supporting clients with commercial dispute resolution (including mediation and arbitration), ship arrest and enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards.

Hicksons provides support for clients in commercial transactions in the transport, trade and energy sector, and among other client groups. This includes advice and representation on contracts relating to ship building, the sale and purchase of ships and aircraft, insurance and financing of ships, planes and other means of transport, product liability claims and compliance with the legislation and regulation of the transport, trade, energy and insurance sectors of the Australian and global economy. 

The team is experienced in advising on and applying the constantly growing number of international conventions which affect the transport, trade and energy sectors in Australia and globally.

Hicksons Transport, Trade and Energy team has an extensive network of clients and contacts across Australia and worldwide. The team advises clients and is involved in dispute resolution in many international jurisdictions.

Transport Trade and Energy E-bulletins, Articles and Major Presentations

Derek Luxford was quoted on the subject of insurance fraud in an article titled "Fraud Focus" appearing in Insurance & Risk Professional magazine (August 2010 edition). For a copy of the article, click here.

At the Supply Chain Management Conference in Sydney on 23 - 25 August, Derek Luxford will deliver a presentation titled Maximising Value and Managing Risks for 3PL Contracts. Conference organisers also invited Derek to chair the sessions on the second day of the conference. For more details, please contact Derek on +61 2 9293 5474 or email derek.luxford@hicksons.com.au

At the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers industry seminar to be held in Melbourne on 30 July, Derek Luxford will deliver a presentation titled Piracy: An Ancient and Modern Peril. For more details, please contact Derek on +61 2 9293 5474 or email derek.luxford@hicksons.com.au

Derek Luxford was quoted on the subject of risk management for trucking and the transport industry in an article titled "On The Road Again" appearing in Insurance & Risk Professional magazine (April 2010 edition). For a copy of the article, click here.

On 22 - 23 April 2010, Derek Luxford facilitated a session on marine cargo insurance claims as part of the Marine Cargo Claims Recovery Management Workshop in Kuala Lumpur. For a copy of his presentation, click here. For more details, please contact Derek on +61 2 9293 5474 or email derek.luxford@hicksons.com.au  

Derek Luxford was quoted in relation to the bulk carrier Shen Neng 1 running aground on the Great Barrier Reef in the London based Lloyd's List on 12 April 2010. A copy of the article appears in the 'News & Media' section of this website.

On 18 March 2010, Derek Luxford delivered a presentation titled Piracy: An Ancient Risk in Modern Times with Modern Faces to a meeting of some 50 members of the Sydney Marine and Transport Discussion Group at the offices of Allianz Australia. For a copy of the presentation, click here.

Derek Luxford's article titled "Landmark Piracy Decision reached by English Court" published in Lloyd's List DCN on 4.03.10 (copy)

Derek Luxford was quoted on the subject of skifield insurance and risks in an article titled "Snow Cover" appearing in Insurance & Risk Professional magazine (February 2010 edition). For a copy of the article, click here.

In February 2010, Derek Luxford delivered a presentation titled Piracy Off the Horn of Africa: International Issues to the Australian Institute of Navigation in Sydney. For a copy of the presentation, click here.  

On 28.10.09, Derek Luxford was interviewed by Clive Robertson on 2UE Radio about international maritime law aspects relating to the Sri Lankan asylum seekers rescued by the Australian Government vessel Oceanic Viking and awaiting permission from Indonesian authorities to disembark in Indonesia. A transcript of this interview appears in the 'News & Media' section of this website.  

Derek Luxford's article titled "How to Get the Best Value Out of Your 3PL Contract" (Part II) as published in MHD - Supply Chain Solutions (November - December 2009 edition) (copy)

Derek Luxford's article titled "How to Get the Best Value Out of Your 3PL Contract" (Part I) as published in MHD - Supply Chain Solutions (September - October 2009 edition) (copy)

Transport Trade and Energy e-bulletin August 2009

Derek Luxford's article titled "The Front Comor: An Australian Perspective on the European Court of Justice Rebuff to the English Anti Suit Injunction" published in Maritime Risk International (April 2009) under the headline "A European Wrangle".

Derek Luxford Named in International Who's Who of Shipping and Maritime Lawyers 2009 - copy of Hicksons announcement

Derek Luxford's article titled "European Court Rebuffs the House of Lords - The Front Comor" as published in Lloyd's List DCN on 19.02.09 (copy)

Transport Trade and Energy e-bulletin September 2008

Derek Luxford's article titled "The Achilleas: The Lords Pronounce on Late Redelivery" published in Lloyd's List DCN on 14.08.08

Derek Luxford's article in The Maritime Advocate Online (Issue 344 - April 29, 2008) (copy)

Derek Luxford's article in Waves Magazine Volume 14 Number 1 2008 (copy)

Derek Luxford's article in Lloyd's List DCN on 27.03.08

Derek Luxford's article in The Maritime Advocate Online (Issue 339 - March 25, 2008) (copy)

Transport Trade and Energy e-bulletin March 2008

Derek Luxford's article 'Having a Whale of a Time', published in Maritime Risk International February 2008

Derek Luxford's article on 'An Honourable Way Out of the Whaling Debacle' in The Sydney Morning Herald on 19 January 2008  For more information about this topic, please visit - http://smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/18/1200620202828.html 
Derek Luxford was interviewed about this subject by presenter Tim Webster on Radio 2UE Sydney on Monday 21 January 2008.  Derek was also quoted in a related article titled 'Salty Shepherds - A Row Between Australia and Japan" in The Economist  (26 January 2008 print edition, page 34). 
For the online article, visit - http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566770&CFID=6243840&CFTOKEN=b3c20c36d0f17f97-C405324D-B27C-BB00-012B5B32CDC417EE

Derek Luxford's article in The Maritime Advocate Online (Issue 317 - September 10, 2007) (copy)

Derek Luxford's article in The Maritime Advocate Online (Issue 314 - August 15, 2007) (copy)

Transport Trade and Energy e-bulletin July 2007

'One Size Fits All' article in Maritime Risk International April 2007

Transport Trade and Energy e-bulletin April 2007

Transport Trade and Energy e-bulletin February 2007

Derek Luxford's article in Lloyd's List DCN on 8 February 2007 (copy)

Transport Trade and Energy e-bulletin September 2006

Transport Trade and Energy e-bulletin August 2006

For other articles, news items and bulletins published by Hicksons, please visit our News and Media webpage.