Enrico Salvatico has been appointed as President of the ANIMP (Italian Association of Industrial Plant) Logistics, Transport and Freight Forwarding Department for the four-year period 2018-2022.

ANIMP is a meeting point for companies and professional experts of plant design and installation e represents an important landmark for the supply chain.

Among the associates there are EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) Contractors, small and medium companies providing materials, services, placement and assembly, end-users, University professors, professional experts and scholars, all of them dealing with the design and construction of industrial plants, major works and infrastructures.

For further information please visit www.animp.it.

In volume I of the Encyclopedia of Private International Law is published the voice “Carriage of passangers” written by Marco Lopez de Gonzalo.

BIMCO (Baltic and International Maritime Council) and ISCO (the International Spill Control Organisation) have recently issued two standard contracts, RESPONSECON and US RESPONSECON. The two contracts, RESPONSECON (international version) and US RESPONSECON (United States version), are designed for spill incidents and enable those involved to obtain clean-up services and hire specialised personnel and equipment without delay. The contracts are framework agreements covering the essential elements of the parties’ relationship based on the contractor’s provision of equipment and personnel or even for hire of equipment only. Application of the contract is not limited to shipping incidents or ship-owners counterparties. Requesting Parties may include pipeline operators, oil companies, regional and national government authorities, and other entities that may have a requirement to initiate spill response. The terms and conditions are set out in standard clauses with accompanying annexes for the different parties to insert detailed descriptions of the required services and rates for personnel and equipment.

Diritto del Commercio Internazionale

Prof. Marco Lopez de Gonzalo published an article entitled “the OW Bunker case: competing claims and the debtor’s dilemma” on the Italian journal Diritto del Commercio Internazionale  (no. 3/2016).

Diritto Marittimo

In the Italian journal Diritto Marittimo (no. 3/2016) is published an article of Prof. Marco Lopez de Gonzalo entitled “the new directive on tourists packages and the international and european legislation on transport of persons“.

Unidroit

The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) recently publiched an essay in honour of Michael Joachim Bonell to clebrate his 70th birthday entitled “Eppur si muove: The Age of Uniform Law“. In the essay there is an article of Prof. Marco Lopez de Gonzalo regarding “punitive damages in the international private law, in uniform law and in the UNIDROIT principles“.