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Regulatory & Compliance

The Missing Link – Proper Law of the Arbitration Agreement

Properly drafted contracts should (and usually do) have:

1. A clause specifying the system of law that governs the contract; and

2. A clause specifying how and where disputes arising under the contract are to be resolved e.g. Singapore Courts or Singapore Arbitration.…

28 February 2023

Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

Looking At Singapore’s Pledges For COP27: Are You Ready?

Looking At Singapore’s Pledges For COP27: Are You Read The shipping industry is responsible for 3% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to what Germany emits annually. Yet, across the globe, almost all of shipping is currently still powered by burning fossil fuels including bunker fuel and marine diesel.…

2 December 2022

Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

ESG and Shipping: Navigating Towards A Sustainable Maritime Industry

While Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) may not be on every shipping company board’s agenda, this is likely to change very soon.

Maritime transport represents a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for about 3% of global GHG emissions annually.[1]…

18 November 2022

Shipping, International Trade and Logistics

The Future of Autonomous Shipping Lies in Cyber Resilience

In the last issue of Calypso, we talked about the legal considerations and implications linked to the world of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS).

This follow-up article will dig a little deeper into the related cybersecurity risks and issues, one of the key challenges that autonomous ships owners and operators will face as the MASS market entrenches itself into the wider maritime sector.…

15 September 2022

The Brave New World of Autonomous Shipping

The size of the global Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) market is projected by Allied Market Research to reach $165 billion by 2030 with the Asia Pacific region expected to drive much of that growth.

Earlier this year, The Nippon Foundation, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, and Shin Nihonkai Ferry successfully deployed Soleil, a large, vehicle-carrying ferry, on an autonomous 240-kilometer return voyage from the port of Shinmoji in Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, to the Iyonada sea off the eastern coast of nearby Ōita Prefecture.…

14 July 2022

SNAPSHOTS – Three Important Shipping Cases in 2021

Law Bites Special – June 2022 When is a Bill of Lading Not a Bill of Lading?

The Luna [2021] SGCA 84

Brief facts:

R sold bunkers on FOB terms to subsidiaries of OW Bunker (the “Buyers”). The Buyers nominated various bunker barges (of which A were the demise charterers/owners) for loading of bunkers at Vopak Terminal on various dates in October 2014.…

21 June 2022

Tech Challenges In Singapore, Thailand Shipping Sector

Law Bites – Feb 2022

Although there is wide recognition that the adoption of tech will bring benefits, there are still significant issues that need to be addressed.

Singapore: Maritime cybersecurity

During a webinar at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)-Singapore Future of Shipping event earlier this year, industry experts partly attributed the slow progress to adopting technology to a “lack of trust” – a mentality that sharing data widely would mean losing an industry edge to competitors.…

28 February 2022

“No Win, No Fee” – Singapore’s New Law on CFAs Enhances Access to Justice

Singapore has passed a law that allows lawyers and their clients to enter into Conditional Fee Arrangements (“CFAs“) for certain proceedings such as international and domestic arbitrations, and some proceedings in the Singapore International Commercial Court and related court and mediation proceedings.…

5 February 2022

Attacked For Data: How Liable Are You?

by K. Murali Pany, Managing Partner, JTJB Lawyers, Singapore

In our previous (debut) edition, we wrote about the risks that cybercrime poses to the shipping community and how they can potentially manage those risks.

There are many types of cybercrime methods, which will undoubtedly continue to evolve over time.…

1 December 2021

The Co-Insurance Quandary

Law Bites – March 2021

The economics of insurance have been reliant on the doctrine of subrogation which allows the insurer to sue the “guilty” party on behalf of the insured. Two recent English cases highlighted situations where such rights of subrogation may be lost based on the terms of the contract between the insured and the “guilty party”.…

31 March 2021

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