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Maritime and Cruise Ship Arbitration: Charting the Course and Setting Sail Juan C. Garcia Counsel Maritime and Cruise Ship Disputes Types of Agreements Types of Claims Employment contracts Personal injury claims with crew members

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Juan C. Garcia Counsel

Maritime and Cruise Ship Arbitration: Charting the Course and Setting Sail

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  • Personal injury claims

(crew and passengers)

  • Employment related

claims

  • Construction claims
  • General commercial

claims

Types of Claims

  • Employment contracts

with crew members

  • Contracts with passengers
  • Onshore/offshore

shipbuilding contracts

  • Ship repair contracts
  • Ship financing

agreements

Types of Agreements

Maritime and Cruise Ship Disputes

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  • Determines who will administer the arbitration
  • Establishes default rules

Arbitral center and applicable rules

  • Determines the applicable arbitral and procedural law
  • Place where award can be annulled

Seat of arbitration

  • Law that governs the underlying claims
  • Unrelated to the seat of arbitration

Substantive law

  • Physical place of the arbitration

Venue of arbitration Number of arbitrators

  • Can require arbitrators to have specific experience and background

Nationality and experience of arbitrators Language

Elements of an Arbitration Clause

  • •Typically 1 or 3 arbitrators
  • •Can specify the language of the proceeding
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Why arbitrate cruise ship disputes in the Bahamas?

Arbitration in the Bahamas

  • Tourism and cruise industry

a key market

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  • The Bahamas established a

shipping register in 1976

  • Number of vessels registered in

the Bahamas: 1,693

Why arbitrate cruise ship disputes in the Bahamas?

Arbitration in the Bahamas

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  • Grand Bahama Shipyard Limited

completed repairs on 20 cruise ships in 2016

  • Has bookings for at least 23 ships

in 2017 for refurbishment jobs

Why arbitrate cruise ship disputes in the Bahamas?

Arbitration in the Bahamas

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Freeport Harbor Expansion Panama Canal Expansion

Arbitration in the Bahamas

Why arbitrate cruise ship disputes in the Bahamas?

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  • Well-developed substantive law

– Stable and predictable – Adequately address issues

  • National arbitration law

– Bahamas Arbitration Act of 2009 – UNCITRAL Model Law – Proposed changes?

Making the Bahamas a Maritime Arbitration Hub

  • New York Convention

– Bahamas ratified the New York Convention on 20 December 2006

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Making the Bahamas a Maritime Arbitration Hub

  • Arbitration Center

– Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

  • Arbitration Rules

– Rules specific to cruise ship industry – Proposed rules?

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Making the Bahamas a Maritime Arbitration Hub

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Making the Bahamas a Maritime Arbitration Hub

  • Standard Arbitration Clause

– Clause specific to cruise ship arbitration – Proposed clause

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Making the Bahamas a Maritime Arbitration Hub

  • Proposed clause
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Making the Bahamas a Maritime Arbitration Hub

  • Proposed clause
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Making the Bahamas a Maritime Arbitration Hub

  • Proposed clause
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Questions?

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Maritime and Cruise Ship Arbitration: Charting the Course and Setting Sail

Juan C. Garcia Counsel