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The Brazilian Government formally announced that Act No. 12,815/13 has reached its last step of Executive analysis and has been released by President Dilma Roussef.
The Brazilian National Agency for Waterway Transportation recently announced that terminals in the port of Santos, State of Sao Paulo, and ports in the State of Pará will be the first block of terminals to be put to bid in 2013 under the new Ports Law.
The Brazilian Government has just commenced the bidding process to award the concessions of Galeão and Confins international airports.
Despite its small geographical size Cyprus has developed into a major ship management centre attracting foreign ship owners and ship management companies through the highly favourable tax provisions available to them on the island as well as many other non fiscal advantages offered to this sector.
Depending on the circumstances of a particular transaction, the legal construction of PDPs can vary.
Мальта выгодно расположена на пересечении нескольких важных морских путей.
Malta ligger strategiskt som en knutpunkt för många viktiga handelsfarleder.
Malta si trova in una posizione strategica, al crocevia di importanti rotte navali. Inoltre, poiché la bandiera maltese è una bandiera di convenienza e di scelta, il Registro Navale maltese è oggi uno dei più estesi e rinomati al mondo.
On 4 January 2013, the Decision No. 01/12 dated 1 January 2013 ratifying the Executive Regulations on the Activity of Contractors of Sea Goods Transport was published in the Saudi official gazette, Umm Al-Qura.
A failure by the charterers to pay the hire equates to a breach of a condition, allowing the termination of the charter.
In White Rosebay Shipping SA v Hong Kong Chain Glory Shipping Ltd [2013] EWHC 1335, Owners appealed against an arbitration decision stating that they were unable to claim damages from Charterers in respect of the latter’s renunciation of the charter.
A report on the High Speed Rail (Preparation) Bill and examines why the Government has brought this bill forward and what is, and is not but might have been, in it.
Charterers faced cargo claims arising from the contamination of containerised cargo with fuel oil. Charterers settled these claims and claimed an indemnity from Owners under the time charter between them.
Maritime Partner Chris Nolan participated in this panel at the ABA TIPS Admiralty & Maritime Law Committee meeting titled "Admiralty Practice in the 21st Century: Maritime Government Lawyers and Private Practitioners".
The Environmental Protection Agency recently published its formal Notice of Final Permit Issuance in the Federal Register announcing that the Vessel General Permit currently in force, will be replaced by a Phase II VGP Regime.
We are halfway through Fiscal Year 2013 and some of the budget details and spending plans for federal maritime agencies are still unresolved.
On April 16, 2013, Nancy Sutley, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, and John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chairs of the President's National Ocean Council, released the Administration's action plan for implementing the National Ocean Policy established under E.O. 13547
In response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Congress enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
Since 2008, the shipping market has been badly affected by a decreased demand for shipping, largely due to the global financial crisis.
On May 31, 2013, the United States Federal Maritime Commission issued a wide-ranging proposed rulemaking significantly affecting the licensing.
Our new survey looks at the effects of the GFC on the shipping industry.
A new scenario is taking shape in the airline industry with the rapid expansion of Emirates, the Persian Gulf-based airline, which in a recent development has begun offering services between the European Union and the U.S. through direct flights as well as under special partnerships with other airlines.
The international transport of goods by road is governed by the Convention on International Carriage of Goods by Road (Convention relative au contrat de transport des marchandises par route) (CMR) signed in Geneva on May 19, 1956.
The FCR was developed and introduced by International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations — FIATA (Fédération Internationale des Associations de Trasitaires et Assimilés) for the use of international freight forwarders within the organization.
A failure by the charterers to pay the hire equates to a breach of a condition, allowing the termination of the charter.
Charterers faced cargo claims arising from the contamination of containerised cargo with fuel oil. Charterers settled these claims and claimed an indemnity from Owners under the time charter between them.
In White Rosebay Shipping SA v Hong Kong Chain Glory Shipping Ltd [2013] EWHC 1335, Owners appealed against an arbitration decision stating that they were unable to claim damages from Charterers in respect of the latter’s renunciation of the charter.
It is common practice for traders, usually when they are the sellers of the goods and the charterers of a vessel, to instruct the carrier to discharge cargoes without production of the original bills of lading and to agree to indemnify the carrier against the consequences of doing so.
A trading dispute under an FOB contract provides the opportunity to clarify a number of issues including the role of local custom in the nomination of a port, whose right it is to nominate a loading place within a port, the nomination of a vessel incapable of loading at the original loading place and the nomination of a vessel incapable of performing the shipment.
Missouri Senators Clare McCaskill and Christopher Bond, concerned about the seniority integration treatment of employees at Trans World Airlines ("TWA") following its purchase by American Airlines and integration of the two airlines' operations and workforce, introduced legislation to guarantee labor protective provisions to airline employees with respect to seniority integration for certain covered transactions.
On May 31, 2013, the United States Federal Maritime Commission issued a wide-ranging proposed rulemaking significantly affecting the licensing.
We are halfway through Fiscal Year 2013 and some of the budget details and spending plans for federal maritime agencies are still unresolved.
In the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010, Congress established new requirements for crewmember screening and qualification and for airline transport pilot certification.
On March 5, 2013, the Federal Aviation Administration published its response to a set of clarifying questions associated with the agency's new flight, duty, and rest final rule.
The U.S. Coast Guard published an Interim Rule on February 28, 2013 to implement the revised MARPOL Annex V garbage regulations.
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 was adopted by the International Labor Organization at the 94th Maritime Session of the International Labour Convention on February 7, 2006, and will enter into force on August 20, 2013.
In response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Congress enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
On April 16, 2013, Nancy Sutley, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, and John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chairs of the President's National Ocean Council, released the Administration's action plan for implementing the National Ocean Policy established under E.O. 13547
The European Union Emissions Trading System faced serious international opposition in 2012 for seeking to include carbon emissions from flights into and out of the EU under the ETS regulatory umbrella.
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A new scenario is taking shape in the airline industry with the rapid expansion of Emirates, the Persian Gulf-based airline, which in a recent development has begun offering services between the European Union and the U.S. through direct flights as well as under special partnerships with other airlines.
In the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010, Congress established new requirements for crewmember screening and qualification and for airline transport pilot certification.
The international transport of goods by road is governed by the Convention on International Carriage of Goods by Road (Convention relative au contrat de transport des marchandises par route) (CMR) signed in Geneva on May 19, 1956.
Missouri Senators Clare McCaskill and Christopher Bond, concerned about the seniority integration treatment of employees at Trans World Airlines ("TWA") following its purchase by American Airlines and integration of the two airlines' operations and workforce, introduced legislation to guarantee labor protective provisions to airline employees with respect to seniority integration for certain covered transactions.
A discussion on the developments in East Africa, the history of rail in Lybia and its prospects for the future, a Crossrail update and the liberalisation of the rail sector in Turkey.
I recently saw the article that an ancient Mayan temple in northern Belize was torn down by local contractors to take the limestone that the temple was constructed of for road work.
A discussion on the continuing resolution that funds the government for the rest of this fiscal year: the House and Senate budget resolutions, the upcoming debt ceiling fight; and, finally, the President's budget request for FY2014.
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 was adopted by the International Labor Organization at the 94th Maritime Session of the International Labour Convention on February 7, 2006, and will enter into force on August 20, 2013.
The matter involved claims pursued by various ship-owners against their charterers' guarantor in London arbitration proceedings.
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