COURSE
Advanced Shipping Operations Training
October 24th 2017, 9:30-13.15 / 14:15 -17:30
Venue: Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola, Viale Castagnola 31, 6900 Lugano
Program
SESSION ONE – ADVANCED SHIPPING OPERATIONS TRAINING
09:30 How to deal with liens for freight and demurrage being exercised under the contract of carriage and our recent experience in the Middle East
Kathryn Martin, Senior Associate, HFW
10:15 Specific metals, coal & hard commodity training including case studies using real trading and shipping problems from our experience
William Hold, Senior Associate, HFW
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Problem-oriented shipping training session including FM; what happens there is a strike or a war, understanding demurrage – what are the seller’s responsibilities in FOB vs CFR contracts and case studies; a focus on metals, coal and other hard commodities
Kathryn Martin, Senior Associate, HFW
12:15 Fraud: how to avoid fraud in trading and solutions for once you have become a victim, including arresting accounts and assets
Sarah Hunt, Partner, HFW
Networking Lunch: 13:15 to 14:15 – all attendees
SESSION TWO – MANAGEMENT TRAINING (CEOs, CFOs, COOs)
14:15 Sanctions tour du monde: from time limits applicable to raising loans and other trade finance under the EU/US/Swiss SSI regime to the shipping implications of the Qatar crisis, Iran, Cuba, Russia, and what you need to be aware of when it comes to compliance with business and human rights law
Sarah Hunt, Partner, HFW
15:15 Borrowing Base facilities: are they bouncing back after Transmar?
Financing Russian commodities: coming back from the cold
Olivier Bazin, Partner, HFW
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Joint ventures
Georges Racine, Partner, HFW
Why and how to control a joint venture; tips for reconciling the interests of majority and minority partners; puts, calls, drags, tags, piggybacks and shotguns demystified and winning strategies for securing one’s exit from a joint venture.
17:30 Drinks
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