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Places of refuge: international law in the making?
No full textDiscusses the general principles of the duty of seafarers to go to the assistance of a vessel in distress. Compares the incidents of the Castor, the Prestige and the Sea Empress. Examines International Maritime Organisation (IMO) initiatives on guidelines for masters of vessels in need of refuge and the provision of places of refuge by coastal states. Explores the Comite Maritime International (CMI) work programme on places of refuge. Includes annexes of: (1) the Report on Places of Refuge submitted by the CMI to the IMO Legal Committee; and (2) Guidelines on Places of Refuge for Ships in Need of Assistance
The FPSO – is it a ship? The proposed CMI Offshore Mobile Craft Convention – an up-date
No full textIn the 1999 issue of the AMPLA Law Journal, Dr. Michael White QC reported on the Comite Maritime Internationale (CMI) proposals for an international convention on offshore mobile craft. In this paper, Mr Richard Shaw, Chairman of the CMI International Subcommittee on Offshore Mobile Craft and Structures, summarises the arguments for and against such a convention as advanced recently before the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and argues, with reference to three specific legal concepts, and with particular reference to the FPSO that clarification of the law at an international level is needed
CMI Conference, Vancouver 2004
No full textReports on issues discussed at the 2004 Comite Maritime International Conference held in Vancouver, including: (1) the York Antwerp Rules 2004 amending the rules relating to general average; (2) maritime security in ports and on board ship; (3) places of refuge; and (4) crimes on the high seas and ashore
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