International Law & Trade, Maritime Law

FMC Approves Proposed Rewrite of OTI Regulations

by Amanda C. Blunt, Ashley Craig, Elizabeth Lowe | Venable LLP on 5/16/2013

Today, the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) voted 3-2 to move forward with reforming the Ocean Transportation Intermediaries (OTI) rules, regulating U.S.- and foreign-based non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCC)...more

U.S. Coast Guard and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Sign Agreement on Offshore Oversight

by David Dickman, Megan Roberts-Satinsky | Venable LLP on 5/15/2013

On May 9, 2013, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announced that they had entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) concerning offshore safety and environmental regulations....more

REGULATORY: Mining and Natural Resources Regulatory; Maritime Deep Seabed Mining: The Next Wave -- U.S. Seabed Mining Regulatory...

by King & Spalding on 4/17/2013

Part I of this article appeared in the December 2012 Energy Newsletter and provided an introduction to the three principal types of seabed ore deposits, a history of exploration efforts, and an overview of the 1982 United...more

Cuba Practice Update - April 11, 2013

by Matthew Aho, Pedro Freyre, Augusto Maxwell | Akerman Senterfitt on 4/11/2013

Cuba Details Rules for Special Economic Zone - The Cuban government last week released details of customs reforms for a long-planned free trade industrial manufacturing and maritime shipping facility in the Mariel...more

Marine Transportation and Anti-Money Laundering

by Thomas Fox on 3/6/2013

My recent article on the marine transportation industry and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) generated some discussion ranging wider than simply the port agent issue regarding interaction with foreign government...more

Through a Glass Darkly: A U Optronics and the Extraterritorial Application of the Sherman Act

by Mark Cohen, Scott Thomson | Cohen & Gresser LLP on 3/5/2013

Can price-fixing abroad be prosecuted criminally under the U.S. Sherman Act? The antitrust bar might well raise an eyebrow at the question. Since international cartels became a focus of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust...more

Federal Maritime Commission to Open Use of Liner Negotiated Rate Agreements to Foreign NVOCCs

by J. Michael Cavanaugh | Holland & Knight LLP on 3/1/2013

The United States Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under which foreign unlicensed Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers (NVOCCs) will be allowed to register with the Commission and...more

FMC Proposes Permitting Foreign-Based NVOCCs to Use Negotiated Rate Agreements

by Amanda C. Blunt, Ashley Craig, Elizabeth Lowe | Venable LLP on 2/27/2013

On February 22, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) issued a proposed rule that would permit foreign-based unlicensed non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) to offer and enter into Negotiated Rate Arrangements (NRAs)...more

Marine Transport and the FCPA

by Thomas Fox on 2/22/2013

One of the things that I have been thinking about over the past few months is the application of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) to the maritime transport industry and more specifically US/UK companies which hire...more

Maritime Transport Subject to EU General Competition Law Guidelines From 26 September 2013

by Philip Bentley, Wilko van Weert, Philipp Werner | McDermott Will & Emery on 2/22/2013

Up until 18 September 2006, maritime transport services were exempt from the EU competition rules in respect of liner conferences. In addition, cabotage and international tramp vessel services were exempt from the...more

TRANSACTIONAL: Corporate/London: Maritime Boundaries: UNCLOS and disputes over the right to explore and develop offshore reserves...

by King & Spalding on 1/17/2013

Despite the 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) providing nations with a 200 mile offshore area (an “Exclusive Economic Zone) for exploiting maritime reserves, international waters remain...more

New FMC Commissioner Could Lead to Continuing Reforms of U.S. International Ocean Transportation System

by Ashley Craig, David Dickman, Elizabeth Lowe | Venable LLP on 1/8/2013

On Tuesday, the United States Senate confirmed William P. Doyle, of Pennsylvania, to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner for the term expiring June 30, 2013. Commissioner Doyle joins Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky, Jr., Michael...more

Florida Port Strike May Not Happen As Negotiations Continue Into 2013: News Release of the Week

by Rosa Eckstein Schechter on 1/2/2013

Florida's economy needs its active and efficient ports and while on one hand, there's construction underway to make Port Miami big enough to deal with the increased traffic coming from the Panama Canal expansion, on the other...more

TRANSACTIONAL: Transaction: Allocation of Ship-Shore Liability: Use of Port Liability Agreements to Provide Protection and...

by King & Spalding on 12/11/2012

The use of port liability agreements to allocate ship-shore liability in a marine casualty event has been widely adopted by U.S. LNG import terminals. As many of these terminals transition to bi-directional operations, they...more

A Guide to Ship Registration in Panama

by Ismael Gerli | Michael Diaz Jr. - Diaz Reus International... on 12/6/2012

Panama is one of the most widely chosen jurisdictions for ship registration due to the ease of registration and low registration fees as compared with many other countries. Panama offers registrants a low-tax offshore...more

Coast Guard Issues New Citizenship "Mechanisms of Compliance"

by Thompson Coburn LLP on 11/30/2012

This morning, the Coast Guard issued a Notice in the Federal Register entitled “Mechanisms of Compliance With United States Citizenship Requirements for the Ownership of Vessels Eligible to Engage in Restricted Trades by...more

Update on Ship Arrest in Australia – Hidden Arrest Proceedings

by Nathan Cecil on 11/7/2012

This short note is to update our clients and contacts in relation to revised ship arrest filing procedures recently adopted by the Federal Court of Australia, which mean that arrest proceedings won't be known until the...more

Dockworkers Union Threatening to Strike October 1

by Venable LLP on 9/19/2012

The dockworkers union along the East and Gulf Coasts is threatening to strike on October 1, should there be no agreement with transportation providers by the end of September. Such a work stoppage will adversely affect U.S....more

Port State Control Detention Over Two Hour Temporary Defect Upheld

by Nathan Cecil on 8/16/2012

In a decision handed down last week, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal upheld a PortState Control decision to detain a ship for a defect which was rectified within approximately two hours of the inspection. Whilst the...more

The Fortnightly Delightfully Brief, Pithy And Wholly Idiosyncratic Newsletter - July 15, 2012 - Volume 1, Edition 13

by John A. C. Cartner on 7/31/2012

In This Issue: The Turning Economy? Free Association; Where is the Wisdom? and Urgings. Excerpt from Free Association: Pithy - The moans about the Congress gutting various subsidy programs for US shipping...more

European Union May Adopt More Stringent Sulfur Content Limits for Marine Fuels

by K&L Gates LLP on 6/14/2012

On May 23, 2012, the European Union (EU) announced that an agreement in principle (strictly, a "compromise proposal") had been reached by the two arms of the EU legislature (the Council of the EU and the European Parliament)...more

The Fortnightly Delightfully Brief, Pithy And Wholly Idiosyncratic Newsletter - June 1, 2012, Volume 1, Edition 10

by John A. C. Cartner on 6/8/2012

In This Issue: - Whose Driving This Thing? - The Inevitable Fate of a Seafarer - TSA: A Useless Agency - Urgings Excerpt from Whose Driving This Thing? Delightfully Brief It is my sense that the...more

A Citizen of a State, under Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, can get a Passport

by Dan Goodman on 5/11/2012

Discover that before the Fourteenth Amendment, a citizen of a State was recognized under international law with the nationality of a citizen of the United States. A citizen of the United States was also a citizen of the...more

Asteroid Mining in Space: Is it Legal? [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 5/3/2012

May 3 (Bloomberg Law) -- Frans von der Dunk, professor of Space Law at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Law, talks with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about the legal implications of a new company's plans to mine near...more

For Purposes of International Law there are Two citizens in the country of the United States

by Dan Goodman on 4/26/2012

William Bennett Munro, Professor of Municipal Government at Harvard University, in his work "The Government of the United States: National, State, and Local" (1919) writes at page 73: “So far as the rules of international...more

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FMC Approves Proposed Rewrite of OTI Regulations

U.S. Coast Guard and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Sign Agreement on Offshore Oversight

REGULATORY: Mining and Natural Resources Regulatory; Maritime Deep Seabed Mining: The Next Wave -- U.S. Seabed Mining Regulatory...

Cuba Practice Update - April 11, 2013

Marine Transportation and Anti-Money Laundering

Through a Glass Darkly: A U Optronics and the Extraterritorial Application of the Sherman Act

Federal Maritime Commission to Open Use of Liner Negotiated Rate Agreements to Foreign NVOCCs

FMC Proposes Permitting Foreign-Based NVOCCs to Use Negotiated Rate Agreements

Marine Transport and the FCPA

Maritime Transport Subject to EU General Competition Law Guidelines From 26 September 2013

TRANSACTIONAL: Corporate/London: Maritime Boundaries: UNCLOS and disputes over the right to explore and develop offshore reserves...

New FMC Commissioner Could Lead to Continuing Reforms of U.S. International Ocean Transportation System

Florida Port Strike May Not Happen As Negotiations Continue Into 2013: News Release of the Week

TRANSACTIONAL: Transaction: Allocation of Ship-Shore Liability: Use of Port Liability Agreements to Provide Protection and...

A Guide to Ship Registration in Panama

Coast Guard Issues New Citizenship "Mechanisms of Compliance"

Update on Ship Arrest in Australia – Hidden Arrest Proceedings

Dockworkers Union Threatening to Strike October 1

Port State Control Detention Over Two Hour Temporary Defect Upheld

The Fortnightly Delightfully Brief, Pithy And Wholly Idiosyncratic Newsletter - July 15, 2012 - Volume 1, Edition 13

European Union May Adopt More Stringent Sulfur Content Limits for Marine Fuels

The Fortnightly Delightfully Brief, Pithy And Wholly Idiosyncratic Newsletter - June 1, 2012, Volume 1, Edition 10

A Citizen of a State, under Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, can get a Passport

Asteroid Mining in Space: Is it Legal? [Video]

For Purposes of International Law there are Two citizens in the country of the United States

Asteroid Mining in Space: Is it Legal? [Video]

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