Maritime and Port
Properties

 
 

KAIRÓS LEGAL and MENDIETA ABOGADOS have established a strategic alliance to provide comprehensive legal services, based on solid knowledge, outstanding competence, proven capability, and a recognized track record.

 

Maritime and Port
Properties

 

KAIRÓS LEGAL and MENDIETA ABOGADOS have established a strategic alliance to provide comprehensive legal services, based on solid knowledge, outstanding competence, proven capability, and a recognized track record.

Mendieta Abogados brings extensive experience and specialization in the legal field, with forty-five years dedicated to the study of law, especially in matters of road and port concessions, as well as maritime and port law. Its experience is focused on the in-depth knowledge of administrative contracting, maritime transportation, concessions in the road and port system, including their development and areas of improvement. Likewise, he has a solid knowledge of national and international legislation on responsibilities applicable in these areas, and of the current problems related to Public Use Assets in strategic coastal areas of Colombia, as well as of the international currents of thought that guide their management.

Mendieta Abogados brings extensive experience and specialization in the legal field, with forty-five years dedicated to the study of law, especially in matters of road and port concessions, as well as maritime and port law. Its experience is focused on the in-depth knowledge of administrative contracting, maritime transportation, concessions in the road and port system, including their development and areas of improvement. Likewise, he has a solid knowledge of national and international legislation on responsibilities applicable in these areas, and of the current problems related to Public Use Assets in strategic coastal areas of Colombia, as well as of the international currents of thought that guide their management.

With a professional background advising and/or representing companies such as:

  • Oleoducto de Colombia S.A., builder of the Vasconia to Coveñas pipeline; Terminal Marítimo Muelles el Bosque S.A., the first private general cargo public service port established in Cartagena;
  • Compañía Colombiana de Astilleros S.A., -Conastil S.A.-, builder and repairer of maritime vessels in Cartagena;
  • Líneas Agromar S.A., at the time the second largest maritime cargo line after Flota Mercante Grancolombiana, based in Barranquilla.
  • Transpetrol Ltda., a fuel transportation company to San Andres based in Cartagena with a port approval.
  • Interoceánica Ltda., a maritime company dedicated to cabotage, headquartered in Cartagena.
  • Parcel Tankers Services de Colombia Ltda, an international maritime company dedicated to dry bulk transportation.
  • Central Charter de Colombia S.A., a leading private aviation company in Colombia, headquartered in Bogotá.
  • United States Aviation Underwriters Inc. a New York-based aviation reinsurance company.
  • Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros Amaya S.A., headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
  • J.P. McAllister Associates Inc., operator of the Port of New York.
  • Aluminal Química Do Nordeste Ltda., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

With a professional background advising and/or representing companies such as:

  • Oleoducto de Colombia S.A., builder of the Vasconia to Coveñas pipeline; Terminal Marítimo Muelles el Bosque S.A., the first private general cargo public service port established in Cartagena;
  • Compañía Colombiana de Astilleros S.A., -Conastil S.A.-, builder and repairer of maritime vessels in Cartagena;
  • Líneas Agromar S.A., at the time the second largest maritime cargo line after Flota Mercante Grancolombiana, based in Barranquilla.
  • Transpetrol Ltda., a fuel transportation company to San Andres based in Cartagena with a port approval.
  • Interoceánica Ltda., a maritime company dedicated to cabotage, headquartered in Cartagena.
  • Parcel Tankers Services de Colombia Ltda, an international maritime company dedicated to dry bulk transportation.
  • Central Charter de Colombia S.A., a leading private aviation company in Colombia, headquartered in Bogotá.
  • United States Aviation Underwriters Inc. a New York-based aviation reinsurance company.
  • Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros Amaya S.A., headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
  • J.P. McAllister Associates Inc., operator of the Port of New York.
  • Aluminal Química Do Nordeste Ltda., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This integration strengthens our commitment to provide comprehensive solutions with quality, experience and efficiency in the legal security demanded by today's reality.

LIMITATIONS TO THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP OF REAL ESTATE.

Expropriation Processes – From the Administrative Stage: Experts in handling Formal Purchase Offers made by the Colombian State or a governmental institution for the mandatory acquisition of land in the public interest, which may eventually lead to judicial expropriation proceedings.

Easements: Real right that allows an oil, gas or electric company to temporarily or permanently occupy a property to carry out exploration, production or transportation activities of hydrocarbons or electric energy in compliance with the Law.

Clarification of Titles: For landowners in Colombia where the State raises doubts about the land's status as private property, in areas the Nation considers vacant or for public use, especially in low-tide coastal zones.

This integration strengthens our commitment to provide comprehensive solutions with quality, experience and efficiency in the legal security demanded by today's reality.

LIMITATIONS TO THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP OF REAL ESTATE.

Expropriation Processes – From the Administrative Stage: Experts in handling Formal Purchase Offers made by the Colombian State or a governmental institution for the mandatory acquisition of land in the public interest, which may eventually lead to judicial expropriation proceedings.

Easements: Real right that allows an oil, gas or electric company to temporarily or permanently occupy a property to carry out exploration, production or transportation activities of hydrocarbons or electric energy in compliance with the Law.

Clarification of Titles: For landowners in Colombia where the State raises doubts about the land's status as private property, in areas the Nation considers vacant or for public use, especially in low-tide coastal zones.