Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Ballast Water

Shipowners prepare! Ballast water management won’t be business as usual: The free ride will soon be over for invasive aquatic organisms and non-compliant shipowners alike. Ratification of the IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention, 2004 (“the…

Suha Obaid – WISTA UAE’s Inspirational Young Personality of the Year 2015

WISTA UAE is proud to announce that our member Ms. SuhaObaid has won the Young Personality of the Year Award at Seatrade Middle East Awards 2015. We have an immense pleasure to see how she…

Time to Pull Out All the Stops

Establishing a global maritime hub is no mean feat. This year the UAE again demonstrated its trading prowess, ranking 8th out of 189 countries for “trading across borders” in the World Bank Group’s annual Doing…

OW Bunker: The SAGA Continues

Many of you have been inquiring about the status of the O W Bunker DMCC ("OWB") liquidation and we are now in a position to provide you with a significant update. It is anticipated that…

Exceptional Victory for Shipowner

Late last year, the Dubai Court of First Instance made an order in favour of the Shipowner for AED 10 million in compensation for wrongful arrest. The judge ruled that the Claimant had been unlawful…

OW Bunker Aggressively Pursuing Ship Arrests

In the midst of the on-going OW Bunker (OWB) debacle, here are some key points when considering your options, particularly in the UAE. Pre-emptive action through the courts around the world by ship owners It…

8TH UAE Shipping Roundtable

As the leading Maritime Law Firm in the Middle East, Fichte & Co., together with Tufton Oceanic and the Dubai Council for Marine and Maritime Industries, organized and sponsored the 8th UAE Shipping Industry Roundtable,…

New Regulations for Ship Ballast Water Management

This Article was first published on March 2014 Issue No. 4 of Marasi News: UAE’s Specialized Maritime Magazine In the light of the 2004 IMO Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water…

Dispute Resolution Clauses now Incorporated into Bills Of Lading

Dubai’s supreme court, the Court of Cassation, has ruled on a case regarding the incorporation of charterparty terms into a bill of lading, specifically the incorporation of an arbitration clause. In the present case, the…