Due to another serious and complicated episode of the Covid-19 pandemic, please be informed that we are reactivating the work-from-home (WFH) policy to protect our entire employees’ health as well as limited the transmission of Covid-19 in the community. WFH policy will be from today, 01 February 2021 until further notice.

Dzungsrt & Associates LLC also sincerely announce that our Tet holiday schedule starting from 08 February 2021 until 21 February 2021. We wish our Esteemed Clients, Colleagues and Friends with your Families the health, joyfulness and a warm Ter holiday.

For urgent assistance, please contact our hotlines:

Hanoi: Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Minh – Partner | Mob: +84 976 597 636 | Email: minh.nguyen@backup.dzungsrt.com

Saigon: Ms. Tran Ha Han – Shipping Partner | Mob +84 986 414 702 | Email: han.tran@backup.dzungsrt.com

Dzungsrt & Associates LLC would like to deliver our deep appreciation and acknowledgments to the speakers collaborated with us during 8 sessions of our weekly webinar series on “Shipping Law and It’s application in Vietnam” from 02 October 2020 to 20 November 2020. They are:

1. Mr. Eske Munk – Chief Representative, Spica Services Vietnam
2. Mr. John Simpson – Partner, Stephenson Harwood LLP
3. Mr. Paul Apostolis – Director of Singapore office, Campbell Johnston Clark
4. Mr. Jai Sharma – Head of Cargo Casualty, Clyde & Co (UK)
5. Mr. Simon Culhane – Partner, Clyde & Co (UK)
6. Mr. Chris Metcalf – Partner, Holman Fenwick Willan
7. Mr. Ian Anderson – Partner, RPC Premier Law
8. Mr. Corina Song – Partner, Allen & Gledhill
9. Mr. Steffen Pedersen – Arbitrator, SCMA

The Webinar series attracted more than 600 audiences from the shipping industry, who are shipowners, charterers, marine insurers, shipyards, ship financiers, port operators, cargo receivers, consignees, shippers, carriers, surveyors, logistic providers, freight forwarders, etc., and 17 lecturers and students from 10 law schools in the country.

The Webinar series has created an invaluable opportunity for Partners of Dzungsrt & Associates LLC and our distinguished Speakers to educate various topics on international maritime law as well as to share the hands-on experience to provide the local audiences with useful solutions for their problems.

This Webinar is merely the very first step for our coming events, which would head toward the development of maritime law, marine insurance law and related dispute resolution.

Best regards,

Nguyen Manh Dzung, Senior Partner

Our Senior Partner – Mr Nguyen Manh Dzung has been identified by independent research with clients and peers as being among the world’s leading transport lawyers in the Shipping chapter of Who’s Who Legal: Transport 2021: https://whoswholegal.com/nguyen-manh-dzung

Mr Nguyen Manh Dzung found Dzungsrt & Asociates LLC in 1999 and trained the first generation of specialised shipping lawyers in Vietnam over 20 years, and his professional reputation is internationally recognised by IG of P&I Clubs as well as international shipping law firms in the Asia Pacific region.

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed direct impacts on the global economy and brought along a great deal of consequences. Vietnamese businesses in general and companies operating in the maritime sector in particular are not excluded from this spiral. In a short period of time, a lot of disputes have arisen regarding delay in delivery, delay in payments for goods and rental fees, demurrage, detention, cargo claims, collision, etc. Having to face such situation, businesses suffer confusion trying to find the most effective solutions for their disputes. Understanding the worries of businesses about the impacts of the pandemic, we are pleased to offer completely free webinars (online seminars) to provide basic knowledge on maritime law and maritime operations in Vietnam. For the first time in Vietnam, businesses will have the opportunity to speak directly with leading maritime lawyers in the world and the region from world-renowned law firms which are always in the top rank by Legal 500 or Chambers & Partners. Furthermore, attendees can also ask the speakers about specific problems which they are facing for useful solutions that are relevant to the merit of each case. In addition, the webinars are also supported by the Vietnam International Arbitration Center (VIAC), the leading international arbitration center in Vietnam, which has resolved many maritime disputes in the nation and Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA), a maritime arbitration center. We believe that this is an opportunity for businesses to grasp the basics of the maritime sector as well as useful solutions to the disputes that they are facing in order to navigate through their difficulties during and after the pandemic..

FOR FULL PROGRAM

TOPIC 1        OVERVIEW OF SHIPPING INDUSTRY AND MARKET IN VIETNAM
(WHO ARE KEY PLAYERS?)

Proposed time and date: 15:00 -16.30’ LT of Friday 2 Oct 2020

Invitation

TOPIC 2     SHIP FINANCE AND CORPORATE SHIPPING
(SALE AND PURCHASE, SHIPBUILDING, SHIP MORTGAGE, SHIP MANAGEMENT)

Proposed time and date: 15:00 -16.30 LT of Friday 9 Oct 2020

TOPIC 3        MARITIME LAW
(MARINE COLLISIONS, OIL POLLUTION, SALVAGE, GENERAL AVERAGE, TOWAGE AND PILOTAGE)

Proposed time and date: 15:00 -16.30’ LT of Friday 16 Oct 2020

TOPIC 4        CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA
(B/L, HAGUE-VISBY, HAMBURG AND ROTTERDAM RULES, LIMITATION REGIMES – CARGO CLAIMS)

Proposed time and date: 15:00 -16.30LT of Friday 23 Oct 2020

TOPIC 5         CHARTERPARTIES
(VOYAGE, TIME, SLOT, BAREBOAT AND HYBRIDS – SHIP CLAIMS)

Proposed time and date: 15:00 -16.30 LT of Friday 30 Oct 2020

TOPIC 6        MARINE INSURANCE
(P&I, HULL AND CARGO)

Proposed time and date: 15:00 -16.30 LT of Friday 6 Nov 2020

TOPIC 7        ADMIRALTY LAW AND PRACTICE
(JURISDICTION IN PERSONAM AND IN REM, MARITIME CLAIMS/LIENS AND SHIP ARREST/RELEASE)

Proposed time and date: 15:00 -16.30 LT of Friday 13 Nov 2020

TOPIC 8       CONFLICTS OF LAW, MARITIME ARBITRATION AND ENFORCEMENT ISSUES

Proposed time and date: 15:00 -16.30 LT of Friday 20 Nov 2020