by Editor | May 29, 2017 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
Richard Gluck, USA rgluck@gsblaw.com In line with PRC’s 13th Five-Year-Plan and “Internet+” initiative, the Ministry of Transport launched the Non-Truck-Owning-Carrier program as a one-year pilot beginning December 2016. The goal of the program is to introduce...
by Editor | May 24, 2017 | Customs Issues, National Issues
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) published Customs Notice 17-15 yesterday, which delays the mandatory implementation date for the e-Manifest program indefinitely. This expected announcement replaces Notice 16-23, under which e-Manifest would have been...
by Editor | May 14, 2017 | National Issues, Summaries of Cases
Ik Wei Chong, Clyde + Co, Shanghai China has for the longest time been known for adopting one of the most restrictive reciprocity systems in the world. A view widely accepted by even Chinese scholars, this approach has made it almost impossible to recognise foreign...
by Editor | Apr 25, 2017 | Jurisdiction + Forum, Summaries of Cases
Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam Baltic Cable AB in Malmö, Sweden, owns and operates a 600 submarine high voltage, direct current link between Trelleborg, Sweden and Lübeck, Germany. This link...
by Editor | Apr 19, 2017 | Legal Lookout
Steve Block, Foster Pepper PLLC, USA The evolution of ocean shipping requires periodic tune-ups to its management, and the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) recently worked with industry (though its various trade associations) to adjust the cogs of regulatory...
