Programme

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MONDAY 12 MAY 2025

09:00-17:00 EXCO meeting (closed)
Venue: Lapis Room 1

TUESDAY 13 MAY 2025

12:00-17:00 Registration
Venue: Hotel Lobby, Conference floor
10:00-17:00 IWGs and SCs Meetings
Venue: Law firms etc in Tokyo city center
Programme to be circulated shortly.
19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception
Venue: Ho Room
Dress code: Business attire or smart casual
21:00- yCMI Event
Venue: TBC

WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 2025

08:00-11:00 Registration
Venue: Lobby, Hotel conference floor
*Registration desk is located near Fuyo Room on May 14.
09:00-09:45 Opening of the Conference
Venue: Fuyo Room (East and Central)
Welcome Address:
Ann Fenech (CMI, President)
Tomotaka Fujita (JMLA, President)
Arsenio Dominguez (Secretary General, IMO)
Hiromasa Nakano (Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
09:45-10:30 Berlingieri Lecture
Venue: Fuyo Room (East and Central)
Speaker: José Angelo Estrella Faria, (recently retired, Principal Legal Officer and Head, Legislative Branch/ International Trade Law Division, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Venue: Foyer of the Fuyo Room
11:00-12:30 CONFERENCE PLENARY SESSION
Recent Technology and Experience for Future Maritime Transportation

Venue: Fuyo Room (East and Central)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Venue: Fuyo Room West and Foyer
14:00-15:30 PARALLEL 1 (Fuyo Room East)
Decarbonization
Moderator: Haris Zografakis
Speakers: TBC
PARALLEL 2 (Fuyo Room Central)
Lex Maritima
Chair: Eric Van Hooydonk
Rapporteur: Jesus Casas
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Venue: Foyer of the Fuyo Room
16:00-17:30 PARALLEL 1 (Fuyo Room East)
Shipping under Attack! - Missile Attacks, Piracy and other challenging War Risks
Moderator: Richard Neylon
Speakers: TBC
PARALLEL 2 (Fuyo Room Central)
Lex Maritima
Chair: Eric Van Hooydonk
Rapporteur: Jesus Casas

THURSDAY 15 MAY 2025

07:30-08:30 MNMLAs Presidents’ Breakfast
Venue: Lapis Room 1
09:00-10:30 PARALLEL 1 (Fuyo Room East)
Asia-Pacific Shipping insight
Moderator: Lawrence Teh
Speakers: TBC
PARALLEL 2 (Fuyo Room Central)
Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS)

Moderator: Tom Birch Reynardson
Speakers: TBC
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Venue: Foyer of the Fuyo Room
11:00-12:30 PARALLEL 1 (Fuyo Room East)
Legal Issues facing the cruise industry

Moderator: Fred Kenney
Speakers: TBC
PARALLEL 2 (Fuyo Room Central)
Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS)

Moderator: Tom Birch Reynardson
Speakers: TBC
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Venue: Fuyo Room West and Foyer
14:00-15:30 PARALLEL 1 (Fuyo Room East)
Polar Shipping
Moderator: Aldo Chircop
Presenter 1: Luce Bourbeau
Presenter 2: Ilker Basaran
Presenter 3: David Baker (Ship-sourced Pollution in Antarctic Waters: Liability and Compensation) Commentator - Phil Buhler
PARALLEL 2 (Fuyo Room Central)
Collision Convention
Moderator: John O’Connor
Speakers: TBC
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Venue: Foyer of the Fuyo Room
16:00-17:30 PARALLEL 1 (Fuyo Room East)
Promotion of Rotterdam Rules and the Beijing Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sale of Ships

Moderator: Ann Fenech, Stuart Hetherington
Speakers: TBC
PARALLEL 2 (Fuyo Room Central)
Future of the IOPC and the HNS Funds

Moderator: Tomotaka Fujita
Speakers:

The Funds Secretariat's View

  • Gaute Sivertsen

Shipowner's View

  • Leyla Pearson

Insurer's View

  • Nick Shaw

Cargo Interest's view

  • Koshi Okuda

The HNS Fund ready for operation?

  • Gillian Grant

FRIDAY 16 MAY 2025

09:00-10:30 PARALLEL 1 (Fuyo Room East)
Mobile Offshore Renewable Units (MORU)

Moderator: Alexander Severance
Speakers: TBC
PARALLEL 2 (Fuyo Room Central)
Academics Session

Moderator: Frank Stevens
Speakers:

Phantom ships registered in phantom registries or not so? Can due diligence in the registration process tackle the vexing problems?

  • George Theocharidis

Carriage of live animals by sea: the European perspective

  • Frank Smeele
10:30-11:30 Break to change for Excursion
11:30-17:30 Excursion (including lunch on the boat)
Buses leave in front of the Hotel New Otani Tokyo

Followed by Dinner Reception. Participants will not return to the hotel prior to Dinner Reception.
18:00-22:00 Dinner Reception
Venue: XEX Atago Green Hills
Dress Code: Casual

SATURDAY 17 MAY 2025

09:00-10:30 CONFERENCE PLENARY SESSION Adoption of Resolution on Lex Maritima
Venue: Fuyo Room (East and Central)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Venue: Foyer of the Fuyo Room
11:00-12:30 yCMI
Moderator: Yiannis G. Timagenis
Venue: Fuyo Room (East and Central)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Venue: Fuyo Room West and Foyer
13:30-16:30 CMI General Assembly
Venue: Fuyo Room (East and Central)
16:30-17:30 Executive Council Meeting 2
Venue: Lapis Room 1
18:30-21:30 Cocktail Drinks followed by Gala Dinner
Venue: Fuyo Room (East, Central and West)
Dress code: Business attire or traditional dress
21:30-23:30 After Party
Venue: Edo Room