Maritime, Aviation & Transport Law in Jordan

Shipping connected to Jordan is governed by the Maritime Commercial Law No. 12 of 1972, with casework centred on the port of Aqaba, and civil aviation by the Civil Aviation Law No. 41 of 2007. We handle cargo claims, charterparties, ship arrest, aircraft leasing and carrier-liability disputes.

Jordan’s only seaport, Aqaba, handles nearly the entire country’s trade by sea, while Queen Alia International Airport is a growing cargo and passenger hub for the Levant. Disputes around goods in transit, charterparties, aircraft leasing, and multi-modal carriage regularly land in Jordanian courts. Abdullah & Partners brings dedicated expertise in shipping, aviation and surface transport law to protect the interests of carriers, cargo owners and their insurers.

Our aviation practice covers aircraft sale, leasing and financing, airline regulatory matters before the Jordan Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission, carrier liability under the Warsaw and Montreal Conventions, ground-handling disputes, and airport concessions. We advise both international carriers serving Jordan and Jordanian operators expanding their fleets.

Jordan sits at the crossroads of the CMR road-haulage corridors linking the Gulf, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. We handle CMR claims, freight-forwarder liability, multi-modal bills and cross-border transit issues, and we coordinate enforcement across borders where cargo moves through multiple jurisdictions.

Transport law rewards speed, evidence perishes, vessels sail, and claim periods run out. Our value is in moving decisively in the first 48 hours.

Shipping connected to Jordan is governed by the Maritime Commercial Law No. 12 of 1972, which covers carriage of goods by sea, bills of lading, charterparties and ship arrest, with maritime affairs overseen by the Jordan Maritime Authority and casework concentrated around the port of Aqaba. Civil aviation is regulated under the Civil Aviation Law No. 41 of 2007, which established the Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission as the authority for licensing, safety and the economic regulation of carriers serving Jordan. Land and multi-modal carriage draws on Jordan’s transport regulations together with the international road-haulage rules that govern cross-border movements through the region. Around this statutory base, the international carriage conventions, including the Hague-Visby, Hamburg, Warsaw and Montreal regimes, frame liability for goods and passengers, and we work across all of them to recover or defend a claim before the evidence disappears. Source: Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission.