China’s courts build reputation in maritime disputes
September 30, 2014 Category Logistics, Ports & sea transport
More foreign companies prefer to have marine disputes resolved in Chinese courts nowadays as the judiciary’s reputation grows with the increasing number of maritime cases in which it has provided equal protection to overseas litigants, China’s top court said. Disputes over marine freight, watercraft rentals, vessel collisions, ship construction and ocean pollution have multiplied, according to China’s Maritime Adjudication, a white book of marine trial records over the past 30 years in Chinese and English issued by the Supreme People’s Court (SPC). The figure shows an annual increase of about 10% a year, and China now handles the most marine disputes in the world as it becomes the main maritime cargo center in the Asia-Pacific region. So far, these tribunals have heard 64,747 marine cases involving overseas litigants from more than 70 countries and regions. By August, 8,258 marine rulings with English versions have been released on the internet, Wang Yanjun, Deputy Chief Judge of the Marine Tribunal under the SPC said. As of 2013, Chinese maritime courts had detained 7,744 ships, of which 1,660 were from foreign companies, the China Daily reported.
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