PROGRAMME
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08:00 - 11:00
Registration
Venue: Event Center Foyer
09:00 - 09:45
Opening of the Event
Welcome Address:
Ann Fenech - CMI President
Luis Felipe Galante - President Brazil MLA
Arsenio Dominguez - IMO Secretary General
Pedro Guerra - Cabinet Chief of the Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services
Commander of Brazilian Navy TBC
Venue: Louvre Rooms I and II
09:45 - 10:30
Berlingieri Lecture by Prof. Norman Martinez
Director International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI Malta)
50th Anniversary of the International Convention on Limitation of Liability 1967
Venue: Louvre Rooms I and II
10:30 -11:00
Coffee Break
Venue: Event Center Foyer
11:00 - 12:30
PLENARY SESSION
Ratification of International Conventions and Operation of Regional Navigation Agreements by Latin American Countries
Moderator: Bernardo Mendes Vianna
Speaker: Congressman Paulo Alexandre Barbosa - President of the Parliamentary Front of Ports and Airports
The new world order and legal aspects: The importance of international conventions for Brazil.
Speaker: Jones Soares - Director of Transpetro
The Incorporation of the Hamburg Rules into the Ecuadorian Maritime Legal Regime.
Speaker: Javier Cardoso - President Ecuador NMLA
Speaker: Joaquín De Obarrio - President Panama NMLA
River Transport Agreement for the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway – Argentine perspective.
Speaker: Diego Chami - President Argentina NMLA
Speaker: Elizabeth Salas - President Colombia MLA
Venue: Louvre Rooms I and II
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch
Venue: Queluz rooms I to IV
PARALLEL SESSIONS
14:30 - 16:00
PARALLEL 1
Decarbonization: Update
Moderator: Haris Zografakis
Speakers: TBA
Venue: Louvre Room I
PARALLEL 2
United Nations Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents
Moderator: Alexander von Ziegler
General introduction / overview of the NCD Convention, on its functioning and how this would also apply to a maritime or maritime + contract of carriage if the parties so chose
Speakers: Jose Angelo Estrella Faria
The coexistence and potential conflicts with national laws
Speakers: Paula Bäckden
The coexistence and conflicts with important International Transport Conventions
Speakers: Frank Smeele
The coexistence and potential conflicts with RR
Speakers: Juan Pablo Rodríguez Delago
NCD / RR and the electronic B/L and electronic NCD, the importance of the evaluation of the reservation
Speakers: Manuel Alba
The concerns and views of the Shipping Industry; the importance of the Reservation
Speakers: Lia Amaxilati
Venue: Louvre Room II
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
Venue: Event Center Foyer
16:30 - 18:00
PARALLEL 1
Decarbonization affecting Ports and Terminals
Moderator: Mauro Sammarco
The Blue Visby solution.
Speaker: Filipe Santana
Green Corridors: legal aspects of a policy ambition
Speaker: Haris Zografakis
Decarbonizing the world’s ports: recent developments and challenges in Europe and China, through the lens of CMB.TECH’s project experience
Speaker: Lutgarde Eraly
The key role of the public sector to enhance the decarbonization of ports and terminals
Speaker: Julio Castiglioni
The Brazilian Waterway Transports Regulatory Agency (ANTAQ) and the Energy Transition Framework
Speaker: ANTAQ Director TBC
Venue: Louvre Room I
PARALLEL 2
Fraudulent Ship Registration
Moderator: Frank Nolan
Speakers: TBA
Venue: Louvre Room II
07:30 - 08:30
NMLAs Presidents’ Breakfast
Venue: Windsor Roos
PARALLEL SESSIONS
09:00 - 10:30
PARALLEL 1
Security Interests in Containers
Moderator: Benoit Goemans
Speakers: TBA
Venue: Louvre Room I
PARALLEL 2
Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS)
Moderator: Frank Stevens
Insurance Considerations for MASS
Speaker: Danielle Datta
GPS spoofing and jamming
Speaker: Fugro TBC
The IMO MASS Code
Speaker: Gen Goto
Venue: Louvre Room II
10:30 - 12:00
PARALLEL 1
yCMI - Intersections of Security, Geopolitics and Maritime Law in a Changing World
Moderator: Harald Søndergard
Sanctions, Shadow Fleet and P&I Insurance: Policing at Sea and Its Potential Implications for Freedom of Navigation
Speaker: Iva Parlov
Sanctions and legal issues in shipping: A perspective from the evolving situation in Colombia and Venezuela
Speaker: Javier Franco
Drafting for Security Disruption in Charterparties and Bills of Lading: Decision Rights and Cost Allocation
Speaker: Morgane Roussel
The new Brazilian Insurance Law and its implications for the international maritime insurance and reinsurance market
Speaker: Frederico Moreira Alcântara de Siqueira
Compliance Challenges for Chinese Maritime In-House Counsels in a Shifting Legal Landscape
Speaker: Anqi (Angela) Song
Maritime Insolvency in an Era of Geopolitical Fragmentation: Unique Maritime Risks and International Judicial Cooperation
Speaker: Warren de Waegh
Venue: Louvre Room I
PARALLEL 2
The CMI Lex Maritima – The road so far and the way forward
Moderator: Eric Van Hooydonk
An introduction to ‘The CMI Lex Maritima 2025 - The Tokyo Principles of Maritime Law’, the very first compilation of universal principles of maritime law
Speaker: Eric Van Hooydonk
How legal practice in Brazil, Argentina and Japan could use the Tokyo Principles – Status of translations of the CMI Lex Maritima
Speakers: Tomotaka Fujita / Eduardo Adragna
Prioritised claims and immobilisation of ships (Principles 23 and 24): Significance for legal practice in South America and England
Speakers: Werner Rizk / Filippo Lorenzon
What the CMI and the national associations can do in the years to come
Speaker: Eric Van Hooydonk
Venue: Louvre Room II
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
Venue: Queluz rooms I to IV
13:00 - 13:30
Break to Change for Excursion
13:30 - 17:00
Excursion: Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain)
Buses leave in front of the hotel
17:00 - 20:00
Sunset Reception at Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain)
Dress Code: Casual
Venue: Embaixada Carioca
PARALLEL SESSIONS
09:00 - 10:30
PARALLEL 1
Mobile Offshore Renewable Units
Moderator: Alexander Severance
Speakers: TBA
Venue: Louvre Room I
PARALLEL 2
Academics Session
Moderator: Frank Stevens
The regulation of liability for MASS
Speakers: Andréia Propp Arend / Barbara Gadig / Steven Rares
Venue: Louvre Room II
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
Venue: Event Center Foyer
PARALLEL SESSIONS
11:00 - 12:30
PARALLEL 1
Revision of the 1910 Collision Convention
Moderator: John O’Connor
Shared Seas, Divided Powers – Navigating the EEZ
Speakers: Leyla Pearson
Scope of application and applicable law: Linking the Threads of a new International Collision Regime
Speakers: Vassilis Vernicos
Overcoming the Dichotomy of Substantive and Procedural Aspects: The Jurisdiction Rules under a new Collision Convention
Speakers: Dieter Schwampe
Vessels’ Liability under a new Collision Convention
Speakers: Klaus Ramming
Collision damages: Is it time to extend the scope? The Lisbon Rules and beyond
Speakers: Francesco Siccardi
Venue: Louvre Room I
PARALLEL 2
The Weaponisation of Sea Routes: Is Shipping in the Firing Line?
Moderator: Richard Neylon
Speakers: TBA
Venue: Louvre Room II
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Venue: Queluz rooms I to IV
14:00 - 17:00
CMI General Assembly
Venue: Louvre Room I and II
17:00 - 18:00
Executive Council Meeting 2
Venue: Windsor Room
19:30 - 23:30
Cocktail Drinks followed by Gala Dinner
Dress code: Business attire or traditional dress
Venue: Casa das Canoas
09:00 - 17:00
EXCO meeting (closed)
Venue: Windsor Room
12:00 - 17:00
Registration
Venue: Event Center Foyer
09:00 - 17:00
IWGs and SCs Meetings
All IWG and SC meetings will take place at the hotel
18:30 - 21:00
Welcome Reception
Dress code: Smart casual
Venue: Cavalo Marinho Beach Club - Ilha 1, Av. Lúcio Costa - Recreio dos Bandeirantes
21:00 - 24:00
yCMI Event
Separate registration required - approximately 50 EUR
Venue: Bar do Zeca Pagodinho - Vogue Square
Av. das Américas, 8585 - Barra da Tijuca