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In this bylined article, partner Bill Amos (Hong Kong) looked at the recent law enabling Chinese court injunctions in aid of Hong Kong arbitrations.

In the recent case of "Birnam Ltd v. The Owners of the Ship or Vessel Hong Ming", the Hong Kong Courts set aside a Warrant of Arrest obtained by the Buyers under a sale and purchase agreement.

For years, shipping was in the doldrums. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 hit shipping rates hard. Growth remained anemic until the pandemic.

In this article, we examine the recent Hong Kong case, MV Jimrise, and consider what guidance it offers on when the courts in Hong Kong will set aside a ship arrest and order damages for wrongful arrest.

Amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention designed to address crew abandonment will shortly come into force.

The Hong Kong Shipping Register is currently one of the top registers in the world and has attracted significant international tonnage.

The quantification of damages for the loss of use of a ship damaged in collision where her owner maintains and substitutes a reserve ship for his damaged ship came up for determination.

As would be expected of a leading maritime centre, Hong Kong is supportive of arbitration, with strong legal institutions and a favourable statutory framework.

On 3 March 2017, the Financial Services Development Council (the "Council") issued an important report, titled: "Turning Crisis into Opportunities: Hong Kong as an Insurance Hub with Development Focuses on Reinsurance, Marine and Captive" (the "Report").

The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered a cascade of complex legal challenges for maritime commerce, from force majeure disputes and contractual deviations to escalating demurrage charges and war risk insurance complications.

Climate change, as evidenced by extreme events such as heatwaves, droughts and floods, left its mark on every continent in 2022, and has already affected billions

The Court of Final Appeal (the highest court in Hong Kong) recently handed down an important decision on claims concerning misdelivery of cargo in Carewins Development (China) Limited v Bright Fortune Shipping Limited (FACV No.13 of 2008, 12 May 2009).

On 19 August 2020, the US State Department announced the "suspension or termination" of various agreements with Hong Kong, including the termination of the bilateral, US-Hong Kong International Shipping Agreement.

This article compares the laws of five offshore jurisdictions – Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Jersey, Mauritius and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) – concerning the registration of charges created over assets of companies (not including charges over land within the offshore territories, ships or aircraft).

Like London buses, you wait an age for one and none come; but when they do, three come along at once.

Uluslararası Deniz Ticaret Odası (International Chamber of Shipping-ICS) tarafından yayınlanan 26.06.2023 tarihli yazıya istinaden; Gemi geri dönüşümünde önde...

Reported cases involving bareboat charters are rare. The recent English Court of Appeal decision in Ark Shipping Company LLC v. Silverburn Shipping (IOM) Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 1161 (The "Arctic" )

The HKSAR Government has recently put forward its proposals on (1) enhancing the existing tax concessions for maritime services industry...