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Get the latest ice reports for the Sea of Japan covering the sea of Japan and Okhotsk areas including the Le Perouse Strait.
Panama, Norway, Greece and other influential actors are co-sponsoring a proposal originally tabled by Japan to curb the carbon intensity of existing ships through use of an Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI), much like the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) which is mandatory for new ships.
New LNG voyage charter party LNGVOY was the focus of a seminar held at the Japan Shipping Exchange on 21 October jointly presented by BIMCO and law firm Stephenson Harwood.
The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan this morning is first and foremost terrible for the people affected by this natural disaster
It’s been four weeks since the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March hit the north-eastern coastline of Japan and caused
We all feel shocked and entirely devastated by the terrible disasters that have hit Japan and the escalation in their effects on the Japanese society
A new virus "Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)" has been detected, causing serious outbreaks in China, Japan and Republic of Korea. WHO issues advice for international travel and trade.
This provision will be applicable when the parties have chosen Japanese law as the governing law of VOLCOA. In such cases, the VOLCOA Japanese Terms will replace Clause 21 (Law and Arbitration) of VOLCOA and disputes should be referred to arbitration in Japan.
Jean is a partner at HFW in London and specialises in shipping litigation, focusing on contractual shipping disputes including charter parties, bills of lading, cargo claims, commodities/trade disputes, ship sale and purchase disputes, bunker disputes and shipbuilding disputes. She represents owners, charterers, shipyards and their insurers based internationally but has a geographical focus on the Japanese market, having worked in Tokyo for 6 months there. On the casualty side, Jean also handles wet shipping disputes, in particular fire and explosions on container vessels due to undeclared dangerous cargoes and/or engine explosions, groundings on reef, unsafe port disputes, crane collapses, damage caused by sulphur cargo, liquefaction of cargo and general average incidents. Jean has worked at the HFW in Shanghai and Pireaus.
As reported some years ago under the heading "Ukraine Ballast Water Problems in Ports" this still seems to be a problematic issue as BIMCO has received an update from the the Japan Ship Owners' Mutual Protection & Indemnity Association.
