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
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 related to the Cruise line 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
Speakers: TBC
PARALLEL 2 (Fuyo Room Central)
Future of the IOPC and the HNS Funds

Moderator: Tomotaka Fujita
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)
Collision Convention
Moderator: John O’Connor
Speakers: TBC

FRIDAY 16 MAY 2024

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: TBC
10:30-11:30 Break to change for Excursion
11:30-17:30 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 2024

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