Key Points of Work Arrangement 2019 for Pudong New Area to Construct Core Functional Area for Shanghai International Shipping Center was printed and circulated recently, proposing 35 key missions which would further strengthen the capability of core functional area for Pudong shipping center in comprehensive resources allocation.

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Greg Yang of this firm attended the conference. Greg Yang expressed that it is very import to add a chapter of compensation for ship-caused pollution, and he suggested that this chapter shall be detailed, and with perceptiveness and practicability simultaneously. There would be no much meaning if only copy relevant stipulations from international conventions, such as CLC and Bunker Convention. In addition, Greg Yang emphasized that as HNS Convention has not come into effect, and China will not accede into HNS Convention in a foreseeable future. Meanwhile, it is still unknown how much and how many types of HNS are being shipped through vessels in coastal sea of China, and how to levy fund for HNS, and whether to share a common fund with the current Fund or set another fund for HNS has not been decided; and, under circumstances that no IG Club would will to provide financial security for HNS, how to settle the blue card and direct claim against insurers? Whether to accept the CoE as a substitute for blue cards? All these important issues have not been settled. And thus, Greg Yang suggested not adding relevant stipulations with regard to HNS.

 

On 6 December 2018, the first plenary session of the Insurance and Law Committee under China Shipowners Association was convened in Shanghai. Mr. Xu Zuyuan, the IMO maritime ambassador and the former vice-minister of the MOT, Mr. Zhang Shouguo, the vice-president of CSA, Mr. Yu Shicheng, the former principal of Shanghai Maritime University, Mr. Song Chunfeng, the General Manger of China Shipowners Mutual Assurance Association attended the meeting.