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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

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

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

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

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

GUARDCON

by Reed Smith on 4/6/2012

All industry participants will be well aware of the difficulties caused by the recent flourishing of piracy in the western Indian Ocean and elsewhere. A whole vessel security industry continues to grow, particularly in Dubai,...more

Hill Harmony case still defines a master’s authority

by John A. C. Cartner on 11/15/2011

Originally published in Tanker Shipping & Trade I October/November 2011. The law is explicit on who has the final say on a vessel’s route, writes John A C Cartner* A great deal of ink has been spilt by commentators...more

Shipping Newsletter - August 2011, Issue 28

by Reed Smith on 8/10/2011

In this issue: The Effect of Insolvency on a Charterparty; The Bribery Act 2010; Federal Maritime Commission Eases Rate Filing Requirements; Update: Sanctions Regimes; Case Study: Refusal of Orders to proceed to Yemen; Case...more

Shipping Group Monthly Bulletin - July 2011

by Reed Smith on 7/31/2011

In This Issue: BIMCO...3 BIMCO publishes Wreckhire 2010...3 CIVIL PROCEDURE...4 High Court grants relief from sanctions where the deadline for service of a witness statement was a bank holiday,...more

US security rule is a curse on seafarers

by John A. C. Cartner on 4/20/2011

The maritime hobgoblin rears its head again.Work in maritime America ismeted out to theworthy by the organs of state security. The Transportation Security Administration is the gatekeeper,with the detested...more

Trade Association Asks FMC to Reopen NRA Rulemaking

by Venable LLP on 4/19/2011

On April 12, 2011, counsel for the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America (“NCBFAA” or “the Association”) submitted a letter to the Federal Maritime Commission (“FMC”) offering commentary and a request...more

How to suppress piracy with law

by John A. C. Cartner on 4/6/2011

TWo untamed elephants are in the room: piracy and liability. Taming liability controls piracy. Here is how. Piracy unites to protect owners in investments; labour in lives; states in trade; and law in civil safety and...more

Shipping Newsletter - December 2010, Issue 27

by Reed Smith on 12/17/2010

IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Can a Vessel be arrested for a Forward Freight Agreement claim in China? 2. Changes to Port State Controls 3. A Second Bite at the Litigation Cherry: “Collateral Attack” 4. The Maritime Labour...more

Calificación jurídica de los contratos atípicos por la Corte Suprema de Chile

by Rafael Durájn on 7/1/2010

Comentario sentencia dictada por la Corte Suprema que versa sobre la naturaleza jurídica del vínculo que unió a un importador de determinadas mercancías, quien actuó subrogado por su...more

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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

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

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...

Dockworkers Union Threatening to Strike October 1

Port State Control Detention Over Two Hour Temporary Defect Upheld

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

GUARDCON

Hill Harmony case still defines a master’s authority

Shipping Newsletter - August 2011, Issue 28

Shipping Group Monthly Bulletin - July 2011

US security rule is a curse on seafarers

Trade Association Asks FMC to Reopen NRA Rulemaking

How to suppress piracy with law

Shipping Newsletter - December 2010, Issue 27

Calificación jurídica de los contratos atípicos por la Corte Suprema de Chile

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

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