We are proud to post the group photo of the 2017 14th Shiparrested.com conference, co-hosted by Lex Navicus Concordia in St. Petersburg. The full set of about 300 photos will be available shortly for all Shiparrested.com members at http://shiparrested.com/project/2017-annual-members-meeting/
P.S. The video of the event will soon be available as well! ?
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the network’s mainstay event where it began in 2004, the city of Malaga and the Shiparrested.com network alike have grown exponentially since then. The Shiparrested.com network was delighted to invite our members once again to this lively city on May 24-26, 2018 to network within the industry at our annual conference.
Located on the western edge of the Mediterranean Sea, Malaga is the capital of southern Spain’s “Sun Coast”. It has a rich and unique history dating back to the Phoenicians who founded the city in the 8th century BC. The city has also been inhabited by Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Moors, and later conquered by the “Catholic Kings” in 1487. The port of Malaga has always played a strategic role in each passing civilization. Today, Malaga is a cosmopolitan city and one of Spain’s most important commercial and cultural centres.
The event began with a welcome cocktail reception on Thursday evening with spectacular panoramic views of the cityscape and port at the rooftop terrace of the AC Marriott Malaga Palacio hotel. Friday’s conference consisted of 25 presentations on a wide range of topics held at Malaga’s Institute of Port Studies; followed by dinner and a flamenco show at one of the city’s most iconic restaurants, El Pimpi. And those who were able to stick around for Saturday’s tour enjoyed a little friendly competition on a scavenger hunt throughout the city centre!
For the original publication please refer to https://shiparrested.com/project/2018-annual-members-conference/
Conference day photos from the 14th Shiparrested.com conference, co-hosted by Lex Navicus Concordia in St. Petersburg.
The full set of about 300 photos is now available for all Shiparrested.com members (the password was circulated earlier amongst the network’s members) at http://shiparrested.com/project/2017-annual-members-meeting/
Lex Navicus Concordia is pleased to announce that our team is expanding, with Konstantin Putrya joining as a lawyer.
Konstantin has previously practised in the South of Russia, and his area of expertise is commercial litigation and shipping law. Konstantin speaks and is a competent translator between Russian, English, and French.
We welcome Konstantin to our team and hope for long and productive cooperation!
Lex Navicus Concordia contributed to the third edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Shipping Law.
This guide provides the international practitioner and in-house counsel with a comprehensive worldwide legal analysis of shipping laws and regulations.
It is divided into two main sections:
Two general chapters. These are designed to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of key issues affecting shipping law, particularly from the perspective of a multi-jurisdictional transaction.
Country question and answer chapters. These provide a broad overview of common issues in shipping laws and regulations in 41 jurisdictions. All chapters are written by leading shipping lawyers and industry specialists and we are extremely grateful for their excellent contributions.
The chapter on Russia’s shipping law was prepared by Lex Navicus Concordia and appears in the 2015 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Shipping Law; published by Global Legal Group Ltd, London. The guide is available at the ICGL website and Russia’s chapter for download below.
In January 2013 a number of major amendments in the Russian legislation regarding the NSR entered into force. Amendments were made to the Russian Merchant Shipping Code, Federal Laws and by-laws, providing for new Rules of Navigation of the Northern Sea Route and the establishment of a new Northern Sea Route Administration.
Despite the legislative efforts to promote commercial navigation on the Northern Sea Route one still has to be prepared to deal with such major factors as generally harsh weather conditions, remoteness of the region, lack of reliable infrastructure (safe ports, repair yards, drydocking facilities) the limited number of icebreakers, and thus limited search, rescue and salvage resources. In such conditions the commercial insurance of both H&M and P&I risks in the Arctic region will remain a challenge for both P&I Clubs and underwriters for many years to come.
The State Commercial Court of the city of Moscow has ruled to enforce a judgment of a New York State District Court in the absence of a treaty between Russia and the USA covering issues of legal assistance/mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments.
Even though the amount of the judgment in the case at hand was relatively small, around USD 560,000, the importance of its recognition in Russia should not be underestimated. The enforcement of the judgment in itself lays the foundations of practice of reciprocity between the courts of Russia and the US; it also marks a certain change of attitude to foreign judgments from the side of the Russian court system and finally, it encourages those who may be seeking to enforce foreign judgments in Russia but have been prevented from it by the absence of the bilateral treaty which directly provides for such possibility.
