Shipping
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Published on June 27, 2019
Tags: Court Approved Sale of Vessels, Judicial Sales of Vessels, private sale of vessels, Shipping
Practices:
Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Malta continues to attract vessels to its shores for court-approved sales. Following closely last year’s judicial sale of the 100 meter super yacht m.y. Indian Empress, the m.v. HHL Rio de Janeiro, a specialised heavy lift vessel, sailed into Maltese waters for her sale by private treaty. The sale was instigated by the enforcing mortgagee. Having considered the market value of the ship, the Court proceeded with its decision of the 29 May, 2019, in the proceedings in the names “J. Scerri-Diacono nomine versus m.v. HHL Rio de Janeiro”, to approve the sale.
Authors:
Louis Cassar Pullicino
Published on July 19, 2013
Tags: Bankruptcy, ship arrest, Shipping
Practices:
Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, Corporate Recovery & Insolvency, Litigation, Arbitration & ADR, Ship Finance & Mortgages
This paper was presented by Dr Louis Cassar Pullicino at the 10th Member's Meeting of Shiparrested.com held on the 16-17 May 2013 at Marrakesh.
Authors:
Matthew Attard
Published on December 14, 2012
Tags: Malta flag, Ship Registration, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Inflexible regulatory regimes could destroy the current demand for a European Union flag, writes maritime lawyer Matthew Attard
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi
Published on September 29, 2017
Tags: Malta flag, Shipping, superyachts, yachts
Practices:
Ship Registration, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Malta is rapidly becoming a flag of choice for yacht and superyacht owners. There are now over 500 superyachts greater than 24 metres in length flying the Malta flag, with the number of registered yachts increasing profoundly when yachts smaller than 24 metres in length are taken into consideration.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Lara Pace
Published on December 17, 2014
Tags: private sale of vessels, Shipping, The Blankenese, The Ladybug
Practices:
Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, International Transport & Sale of Goods, Ship Finance & Mortgages, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
This article has ben published in the Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly ([2014] L.M.C.L.Q. 474 )
Authors:
Matthew Attard
Published on September 5, 2018
Tags: Maltese Tonnage Tax System, Shipping, state aid
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance
The recent long-awaited European Commission decision on the Maltese Tonnage Tax System has been welcomed by the shipping community, both locally as well as from other member states.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Published on July 7, 2016
Tags: maritime, Merchant Shipping Act, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
After taking into consideration a number of proposals made by the local flag administration and the importance to remain competitive in such an important industry, a number of amendments have been put forward to the Merchant Shipping Act (MSA), Chapter 234 of the Laws of Malta which, essentially, clarify a number of ambiguities which existed and also reflect current administrative practices.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Published on December 5, 2016
Tags: maritime, Maritime Labour Convention, MLC, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance
On the 25th of November 2016, Legal Notice 390 of 2016 titled the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Amendment) Rules 2016 (hereinafter ‘the Amendment Rules’), was published in the Government Gazette. The Amendment Rules are to be read and construed as forming part of Legal Notice 145 of 2013 i.e. the Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) Rules (hereinafter ‘the Rules’), and successfully transpose into Maltese law the 2014 Amendments to the Code of the Maritime Labour Convention (‘the ILO Amendments’) issued by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi
Published on September 17, 2019
Tags: Shipping
Practices:
Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, Ship Finance & Mortgages, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
GANADO Advocates contributed the Malta Chapter in Lexology Getting the Deal Through - Marketing Intelligence: Shipping publication for 2019.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Rachel Genovese
Published on December 6, 2016
Tags: Malta Maritime Summit, Ship Finance, Ship Registration, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration
With a maritime culture and industry steeped in history, an ever growing global maritime presence and its upcoming tenure of the presidency of the Council of the European Union in January 2017, Malta successfully hosted the first Malta Maritime Summit, in Valletta, between the 3rd and the 6th of October. Together with a number of international and Maltese stakeholders, GANADO Advocates participated in the Summit and shared its views on a number of topics.
Authors:
Jan Rossi, Ilias Theocharis
Published on August 7, 2019
Tags: sale and leaseback, Shipping
Practices:
Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
This article was first published on tradewindsnews.com (6 August 2019).
Shipping register allows dual registration for lessor and lessee as it chases lucrative market.
Authors:
Matthew Attard
Published on August 23, 2013
Tags: sales of vessels, Shipping
Practices:
Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Dr Matthew Attard, an associate in the ship registration department of Ganado Advocates, explains how court approved sale of
vessels makes things easier for creditors and buyers
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Published on May 8, 2014
Tags: Malta flag, Ship Registration, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
This paper is intended to explain how law can serve as a means to an end and a successful one at that. Apart from presenting the reader with a cursory view of the law regulating ship registration in Malta, the authors have also strived to illustrate how the law assisted in making the Maltese merchant fleet a force to be reckoned with.
Authors:
Matthew Attard
Published on August 4, 2015
Tags: Environment, International Convention for the Control and Management of Ship’s Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM), maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Shipping Compliance
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ship’s Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM) is expected to enter into force in the near future, as it is very close to obtaining the percentage approvals by States and the representation of the world Merchant Tonnage.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Published on April 9, 2015
Tags: Shipping
Practices:
Shipping Compliance
On the 18th January 2015, Malta ratified the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Published on October 23, 2012
Tags: Aviation, Shipping
Practices:
Aircraft Finance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
This article was published in the Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (Part 3 - 2012)
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi
Published on July 31, 2018
Tags: Malta flag, Ship Registration, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration
A Q&A based overview of registering a ship in Malta.
Authors:
Nicholas Curmi
Published on August 24, 2017
Tags: Alternative Financing, maritime, securitisation, Shipping, Special Purpose Vehicles, SPVs
Practices:
Secured Financing, Structured Finance & Securitisation
This article was first published in The Accountant (Summer 2017 edition).
Authors:
Jan Rossi
Published on May 23, 2018
Tags: ship management, Shipping
Practices:
Shipping Compliance
New law introduced with the aim of attracting ship managers to set up in Malta. Legal Notice 128 of 2018 has added substance to the Maltese legal framework on ship management.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Stephan Piazza
Published on August 14, 2015
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Issue 18 of the GA Shipping and Maritime Law Newsletter has just been published.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Stephan Piazza
Published on December 7, 2015
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Issue 19 of the GANADO Advocates' Shipping and Maritime Law Newsletter has just been published.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Published on July 8, 2016
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Issue 20 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Rachel Genovese, Jan Rossi, Saman Bugeja
Published on December 7, 2016
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Issue 21 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi, Rachel Genovese
Published on May 11, 2017
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Issue 22 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi, Calvin Calleja
Published on September 18, 2017
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Issue 23 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi
Published on February 9, 2018
Tags: Maritime News, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Issue no.24 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi, Julian Caruana
Published on July 10, 2018
Tags: Maritime News, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Issue no.25 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi, Julian Caruana, Marcus Rizzo Naudi
Published on December 3, 2018
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Environment & Planning, International Transport & Sale of Goods, Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Issue no. 26 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Marcus Rizzo Naudi, Jan Rossi, Matthew Attard
Published on July 26, 2019
Tags: Maritime News, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Issue no. 27 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi, Saman Bugeja, Ilias Theocharis, Marcus Rizzo Naudi, Rachel Genovese, Matthew Attard
Published on November 18, 2019
Tags: Maritime News, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Issue no. 28 of the Shipping & Maritime Law Newsletter is now available.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Karl Grech Orr, Matthew Attard
Published on February 28, 2013
Tags: maritime, newsletter, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
The latest issue of the GA Shipping and Maritime Newsletter has just been published.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Karl Grech Orr, Louis Cassar Pullicino, Matthew Attard
Published on August 2, 2013
Tags: maritime, Maritime Labour Convention, Ship Litigation, Shipping
Practices:
Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
The latest issue of the GA Shipping and Maritime Law Newsletter has just been published.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Karl Grech Orr, Louis Cassar Pullicino, Matthew Attard
Published on October 15, 2013
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Issue 15 of the GA Shipping and Maritime Law Newsletter has just been published.
Authors:
Daniel Aquilina, Karl Grech Orr, Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Matthew Attard
Published on October 1, 2014
Tags: maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
Issue 16 of the GA Shipping and Maritime Law Newsletter has just been published.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Karl Grech Orr, Matthew Attard, Stephan Piazza
Published on February 9, 2015
Tags: Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
Issue 17 of the GA Shipping and Maritime Law Newsletter has just been published.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi, Julian Caruana
Published on October 15, 2018
Tags: Ship Registration, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
The Malta section in this market intelligence publication dedicated to shipping was contributed by GANADO Advocates. To read/download the contribution by Jotham Scerri Diacono, Jan Rossi and Julian Caruana click on the link below.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi
Published on August 1, 2017
Tags: Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping Compliance, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
This article was first published in GTDT: Market intelligence (Vol.4, Issue 4)
Authors:
Daniel Aquilina
Published on March 30, 2017
Tags: maritime, Shipping, Yachting
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
This article was first published on maltaprofile.info.
Authors:
Calvin Calleja
Published on September 14, 2017
Tags: Ballast Water Management Convention, BWM Convention, IOPP, maritime, Shipping
Practices:
Environment & Planning, Ship Registration
Prior to the entry into force of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention (hereinafter referred to as the “BWM Convention”) on the 8th of September 2017, a recent development that had emerged was the issue of the International Oil Pollution Prevention (hereinafter referred to as “IOPP”) certificate de-harmonisation with respect to the various key certificates of a ship.
Authors:
Jan Rossi, Ilias Theocharis
Published on October 2, 2019
Tags: Ship Finance, Shipping, Shipping sale
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
The popularity of sale and leaseback transactions is now evident to whoever is involved in the shipping industry. In the current global ship finance scenario, financiers and ship-owners now appear comfortable in selecting this method of finance for maritime assets.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono, Jan Rossi, Marcus Rizzo Naudi
Published on October 18, 2019
Tags: Shipping, Shipping sale, Yachting
Practices:
Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties, Yacht & Superyacht Registration
First published in the Journal of International Maritime Law (JIML) vol 25 (2019) Issue 2 at 156-60 by Lawtext Publishing Limited (www.lawtextpublshing.com)
Authors:
Calvin Calleja
Published on September 15, 2017
Tags: Environment, maritime, MRV Regulation, Shipping
Practices:
Environment & Planning, Ship Registration
The imposition of new environmental obligations on Maltese ships, shipowners, and ship operators was perceived as a double-edged sword for its affected subjects. While the European Union Regulation 2015/757 augured well for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the competitiveness of those in the EU industry, compared to their non-EU counterparts, was thrown open to debate. For this reason, the EU and its Member States are lobbying for a global approach to combat greenhouse gas emissions. Various strides have been made in this regard spearheaded by the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) within the IMO. However, for the time being, the Regulation may be lauded as a step in the right direction.
Authors:
Matthew Xerri
Published on August 1, 2018
Tags: Ship Finance, Ship Mortgage, Shipping
Practices:
Ship Finance & Mortgages
A Q&A based overview of ship mortgages in Malta.
Authors:
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Published on July 8, 2016
Tags: Brexit, Dispute Resolution, Shipping
Practices:
Admiralty & Maritime Litigation, Ship Finance & Mortgages, Ship Registration, Shipping sale, purchase & charterparties
In a historic vote held on the 23rd of June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom went to the polls in order to determine the faith of their country’s membership within the European Union. In an unprecedented, albeit expected result, 52% of those eligible voters opted for ‘Brexit’ meaning that for the first time in the history of the European Union, a member state will be triggering Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union (TEU) and commence the withdrawal procedure from the Union.