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Maritime Transport Documents - Discrepancies and Disputes(ICC Workshop - T. O. International Trade Seminars) |
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Maritime Transport Documents - Discrepancies and Disputes(ICC Workshop - T. O. International Trade Seminars) |
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Introduction
Since the introduction of UCP 500, bills of lading are rejected by parties due to discrepancies arising out of ports of loading and discharge, signatory, special clauses, endorsements and other particulars recorded on their faces. Transport documents contribute to one third of the discrepancies according to ICC surveys. Parties have disputes on discrepancies and interpretations of the transport Articles in the UCP 500 All these are due to lack of good understanding on the operations and trade practices of the maritime transports, as well as the inaccurate interpretation of the UCP 500 Transport Articles.
We have the honour to present Mr. T. O. Lee from Canada, an internationally recognised expert in maritime transport documents related to documentary credit operations, to provide the knowledge and skills in maritime transport that bankers need to know to help them do their document examination task with full confidence and accuracy and most importantly, to reduce the discrepancies in maritime transport documents. Mr. Lee will also share with us case studies taken from his work files on maritime transport disputes around the world for the past eleven years.
Workshop Contents
Part 1 - Bill of Lading
Functions of a bill of lading
Kinds of bills of lading, purposes and applications
Endorsements and transfer of rights
Role of freight forwarder and consolidation
Common discrepancies in bills of lading
ICC Position Paper No. 4 on transport documents
Case studies
Part 2 - Terms and Conditions in Maritime Transport Documents
Clause Paramount, Jason Clause, York-Antwerp Rules, Both-to Blame Collision Clause, Identity of Carrier Clause
Rights and obligations of shippers, consignees and carriers
Time bars for claims and legal actions
Loss of bill of lading
Difference between through bill of lading and multimodal transport document
The Hague Rules, the Hague-Visby Rules & the Hamburg Rules
Case studies
Part 3 - Sea Waybill
Difference amongst sea waybill, straight bill of lading and marine bill of lading
Advantages and application of sea waybill & bill of lading
Concerns of parties in sea waybill
Common forms, important clauses & legal aspect of sea waybill
CMI Rules for sea waybill
Case studies
Part 4 - Multimodal Transport
Essential elements of multimodal transport
FBL Negotiable FIATA Multimodal transport bill of lading with ICC logo
Standard clauses
UNCTAD/ICC Rules for Multimodal Transport Documents
Case studies
Participants
The workshop has been designed to satisfy the needs of officers, managers and executives in inward/outward bills departments in banks, Importers, exporters, accountants and finance controllers, Legal councillors in international trade finance, carriers, freight forwarders and logistics officers as well as Trainers in banking techniques and exporters in Bangladesh.
Resource Person
Mr. T. O. Lee FAE, MCIArb, MITD
Mr. Lee is a world-class expert in letter of credit, sitting in various ICC Commissions as a representative of Canada, such as ICC Commission on Banking (UCP 500, ISP 98, eUCP, URR 525, URC 522 & URDG), Commercial Trade Practice (Incoterms 2000), Electronic Commerce, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is also a member of Canadian Working Party on ICC Commission on Banking Technique and Practice. He has contributed by providing comments on drafting ICC Rules, such as UCP 500 Position Papers, URC 522, URR 525, DOCDEX, ISP98, eUCP & ISBP 645 and some of his comments are incorporated in these Rules. He is now appointed by ICC Paris as a member of the UCP 500 Revision Consulting Group to provide comments on the revised Articles from the UCP 500 Revision Drafting Group.
He is an Editor of "L/C Monitor" Toronto, a columnist in "Hong Kong Economic Journal". Further, Mr. Lee was an Editorial Board member of ICC Publication "Documentary Credits Insight" (1994-1999) and also "Maritime Asia/Intermodal Asia" magazine of Lloyd’s of London Press (1993-1995). All above articles and highlights of trade dispute cases resolved can be viewed in his LC website http://www.tolee.com.
He is a Fellow and an Accredited Expert (Letter of Credit) of the Academy of Experts, Gray’s Inn, London and an Accredited Arbitrator of the International Center for Letters of Credit Arbitration USA, a Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, England, a Member of United Nations International Multimodal Transport Association, Geneva and a Member of the Institute of Training and Development, England.
Duration
Two-day workshop
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