Entries by ASDM

Review of the Rules on General Average

The Comité Maritime International (CMI) has been revising the rules on general average for quite some time now. Switzerland is represented in this project by our member Mr. Andreas Bach. Despite multiple attempts from various national maritime law associations the revisions have been rather modest so far. The International Working Group (IMG) is currently discussing, […]

Transfer of the project «Recognition of Foreign Judicial Sales of Ships»

The draft convention on «Recognition of Foreign Judicial Sales of Ships» was adopted on the occasion of the Hamburg Conference 2014. It is now time to transfer the convention into the intergovernmental organizations, in which the instrument shall be developed further into a fully-fledged international convention. Negotiations with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) are currently […]