The local government passed last Friday 5 May new legislation that will regulate yacht chartering activities in the Balearic Islands from Sunday 7 May 2017. This is good news for the sector given that this new piece of legislation is an important step in simplifying, rationalising and unifying del procedures for the performance of these [...]
CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS has named, one more time, ALBORS GALIANO PORTALES as the leading Spanish Law Firm in Maritime law (Ranked Firm-Band 1) due to its achievements during the last 12 months. Eduardo Albors (Band 1), Javier Portales (Band 1) and Alfonso Ochoa (Band 4) stand out one more year.
Eduardo Albors and Javier Portales have attended today the delivery of the oceanographic polar capacity vessel BAP Carrasco to the Peruvian War navy. The Firm was instructed by the shipyard from Vigo (Spain), Construcciones Navales Paulino Freire, during the vessel`s construction period.
An update of the arbitration rules of the LMAA (London Maritime Arbitrators Association) is going to enter into force on 1st May 2017. The rules have not been updated since 2012. According to the LMAA, the update has been performed has taken into account the following guidelines: (i) to maintain the current approach of providing [...]
A few months ago we wrote a comment on two recent decisions of the Courts in Valencia regarding foreign jurisdiction clauses in bills of lading. A further decision has just seen light. On 8 November 2016 the Audiencia Provincial of Valencia (section 9, leading judgment by Ms Purificación Martorell Zulueta) confirmed a first instance decision [...]
On 17 January, ANAVE celebrated a seminar on the International System of compensation for oil pollution damage from spills of persistent oil from tankers. Javier Portales and Jaime Albors attended the event on behalf of the Firm. The seminar was delivered by José Maura, Director of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC) who gave [...]
As of 1 January 2017, ALBORS GALIANO PORTALES will operate as a limited liability partnership with two additional partner, Alfonso de Ochoa and Anja Fábrega. Having previously worked as Senior Associates in the firm, they will join as partners effective as of 1 January 2017. Alfonso de Ochoa has more than 25 years of [...]
Pedro Garaygordóbil (President of ZAMAKONA YARDS), Juan Riva (President of SUARDIAZ GROUP) and Eduardo Albors, Partner of ALBORS GALIANO PORTALES. SUARDIAZ ENERGY SHIPPING and ZAMAKONA YARDS have reached an agreement to build the first LNG Ready multi-purpose barge in Europe. This innovative vessel reinforces the position of the owners in the bunkering sector [...]
The Faculty of Law of the University of La Coruña hosts on 3rd and 4th November the III Maritime Law International Congress under the heading Risk, credit and guarantee in maritime navigation. Our Partner Javier Portales will give a lecture on Transport documents.
