– Policy makers, law makers
– Legal professionals and arbitrators
– Trade associations and industry members
– Academia, law programs and trade programs, insurance programs
– Insurance carriers, underwriters of risk and P and I Clubs
– Financial institutions
– Shippers, producers, and cargo owners
– Technology software companies
– Labor unions, labor human rights associations, coalitions
– Foreign and domestic vessel owners, operators, carriers
Our educational program is very diverse in its approach, and immensely flexible in time, cost, and value-added content. We bring luncheons or after-work seminars to your office, where staff can merge in ideas and networking, and build strong communications skills. We believe in the value of human connections and face-to-face learning.
We bring topics in our continued educational development work that relate to today’s regulatory regimes in the International Trade and Shipping Industry.
We offer the following series of seminars to those who want to challenge their knowledge.
1. Electronic Trade Documentation
2. Fuel EU Trade Regulations, Navigating a Complex System
3. An Introduction to Maritime Insurance Claims
4. The Impact of Technology on Maritime Labour Negotiations
Transportation and Global Shipping
Transportation and Shipping
What these seminars do for your employees, staff, contractors, members, and executive teams is provide insight in new challenges facing their industry, and impact on company operations, decision making abilities, assessment of risk and how to overcome regulatory hurdles we see today in a very regulated global environment.
The case studies are real-time situations addressing legal claims, resulting from liability and damages unanticipated, rather unforeseen providing solutions and methods to reduce your exposure to such risks. Specifically, how to mitigate them.
In the end, the employee brings tools to their staff and operations strategies, including commercial optimization through added confidence in understanding the maritime systems in these key areas.
The value added is in empowering your staff and its contractors to assist your client base in demonstrating your ability to manage and respond to client concerns, through the negotiation processes.
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Our seminars are provided on demand by each organization or group. They are in-person seminars only, and quoted at a customized rate, which is dependent upon volume, content and duration of seminar, and which include expenses per diem for travel, food and lodging.
To register for one or more of the four seminars described below, call Rita Conte at 1-778-888-8065. Or, click / tap here to send an email.
This seminar is titled, ‘Electronic Trade Documentation.’
Provide a reliable and successful model of how to resolve claims disputes in the damages and loss of cargo during transit, loading and discharge providing tools on how to implement affective procedures and processes. We identify the legislation under admiralty insurance law and the rules adopted by each jurisdiction where claims are reported, and vessels are operating.
We cover the UK Electronic Trade Documentation Act 2023. Chapter 38, to establish if UK legislation compromises state, nation legislation and its sovereign principles including the best interests of industry, companies, and the end consumer/public. Comparisons are brought forward between the US, Canadian and UK jurisdictions in terms of its adoption of the Act, if it is acceptable under each nation’s sovereign laws, and if not, can bills still be converted from digital to hard copy without loss or delay of cargo delivery?
We discuss the topic of legal efficacy and integrity of the original bill of lading used as evidentiary documentation in litigated disputes, if they should arise.
We examine the impacts to Industry and companies having to exchange bills of lading in terms of added capital, human resources and training, cost of software and its implementation across all regions.
The seminar will provide strategies, and identify tools to adopt in your organization, to navigate successfully through proposed new regulations in the Canadian and US jurisdictions, assuring choices, and the best interest of your operations, are not compromised.
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To register for this seminar, call Rita Conte at 1-778-888-8065. Or, click / tap here to send an email.
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Workbook for Seminar #1
Included with the seminar is a 37-page workbook. It will soon be available for purchase separately.
This seminar is titled, ‘Fuel EU Trade Regulations, Navigating a Complex System.’
We dive into the implications and benefits of introducing a regulatory regime specific to the US and Canada. We review maritime supply chains in the trade activity of vessels operating in the world.
We address how this impacts the US and Canadian trade regimes in exported tonnages specifically in its short haul and long-haul trips compared to EU short sea shipping and domestic trades.
We focus on the relationships between the maritime industry stakeholders, the IMO, the MEPC and major oil and gas stakeholders. How do we identify heavily taxed regimes and opt in or opt out of the mandatory or voluntary fuel emissions programs?
In addition, we evaluate the newest pricing mechanism introduced by 47 nations resubmitted in place of the last IMO proposal by the ICS International chamber of Shipping.
We examine the science that supports such policy of clean fuel requirements and how each country will use its own sovereign laws to manage incoming foreign vessels and its fuel use, and emissions monitoring.
We add the fuel options in the market being available, based on cost, access, efficiency and vessel type.
How to manage the entry of vessels to EU ports to avoid the additional costs placed on shippers, vessel carriers and operators.
How to address the international legal implications of a system managed and controlled by the United Nations.
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Registration for this seminar will be available soon.
This seminar is titled, ‘An Introduction to Maritime Insurance Claims.’
Review how cases and claims arising out of Insurance policies that are within admiralty jurisdictions can have state laws override these jurisdictions. We exam the differences between Hague Visby Rules, COGSA Rules within US, Canadian and UK jurisdictions the legislation that supports them.
We further dive into the processes in which claims are reported, initiated in each jurisdiction, carried out and investigated specifically in the reporting, statutes of limitations, obligations of parties to prove damages and what party in the contractual agreements bears this burden.
The purpose of the seminar is to provide a basic framework of how claims are identified, what each party’s obligations are in reporting a damage and how losses are determined including the cause, affect and mitigating losses. In the end we look most recent case law that would support decisions that place liability on the cargo interest and the vessel operator /carrier.
Understand how maritime claims can be resolved, preventing legal action and litigation proceedings.
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Registration for this seminar will be available soon.
This seminar is titled, ‘The Impact Of Technology On Maritime Labour Negotiations.’
We dive into the impacts new technology has on the operations of the ports specifically its labour commercial negotiations. We identify how automation and robots work alongside human labor specifically the human and robot systems of communications. The most critical aspect of this seminar is how security of employment and ILWU jobs are secured under more efficient and standardized systems of automation with use of robotics.
The safety and security aspect of the human health and mind has been given little consideration in its role in defining daily communications, safety protocols, defense against aggression and if robots turn against humans in cases of litigation.
Is it a matter of training human labour to accommodate robotics in it claim for space in the maritime world of negotiations or is it the other way around with humanity in its quest for progression and training made a priority.
The implementation, costs, training and ownership of technology specifically if it can cause harm to labor security, port and national security in the use of imported robots, automation and AI data technologies as we see in US and Canadian ports today.
You will have a new perspective on the key issues ILWU and International Labor Unions are addressing in its quest for labour rights, security, growth and efficiency while at the same time, negotiating labour laws. with the new federal administration.
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Rita Conte started out in the industry as a transportation planner, working alongside a grain broker, in a small boutique trading house in Vancouver BC. The trading house was called ‘International Grain Trade’, and was owned by a Columbian businessman.
The business model was based on buying Canadian and US Grain at competitive market prices. This allowed for revenues to be generated through the sale of the products to Columbian buyers, at higher prices, if markets allowed.
Rita drove the execution of the sales contracts, while also buying grain products, under purchase agreements, with Canadian farmers.
She later used her expertise in the Canadian Railway system, in understanding how cars were assigned, trains created under specific SAN car numbers, to assure long trains were efficient in their waterfront distribution systems.
Rita managed and created a maritime claims department as a satellite branch to the head office in Norway for Star Shipping Canada Ltd. (presently G2 Ocean Shipping Canada Ltd.). Star Shipping Canada is a break bulk carrier, under a Norwegian flag. Rita demonstrated immense leadership in setting new operative, handling standards with the collaboration of experts, with whom she worked.
Affective processes and procedures were implemented in the prevention of loss and damages to vessel, crew, cargo and port/terminal property. In addition to her past contributions working for freight forwarders and exporters in the resource sector, Rita managed documentation, claims departments and logistics functions for ports and railways.
Today she works as a contractor, providing expertise in all modes of transportation, assuring regulations and policy are not hindering consumer and end-buyers, including exporters, to prosper in the world of trade transactions.
“My mission is based on delivering services based on integrity, honesty, competencies, knowledge and experience.”
Rita’s expertise in the dry bulk and break bulk industries, in creating track and trace systems to locate cargo, has been most affective in the UNCEFACT track and trace project, utilizing her expertise with a team of experts around the world, all having a background in regulatory, technology, operations, supply chain management.
Today having a world of valuable knowledge in a progressive changing world of regulations and technology deployment along major supply chains, especially in the entry of goods and services, Rita has created seminars to assist all organizations. including policy makers, regulators and law makers. in making the right decisions.
“My mission is based on delivering services based on integrity, honesty, competencies, knowledge and experience.”
Rita Conte started out in the industry as a transportation planner, working alongside a grain broker, in a small boutique trading house in Vancouver BC. The trading house was called ‘International Grain Trade’, and was owned by a Columbian businessman.
The business model was based on buying Canadian and US Grain at competitive market prices. This allowed for revenues to be generated through the sale of the products to Columbian buyers, at higher prices, if markets allowed.
Rita drove the execution of the sales contracts, while also buying grain products, under purchase agreements, with Canadian farmers.
She later used her expertise in the Canadian Railway system, in understanding how cars were assigned, trains created under specific SAN car numbers, to assure long trains were efficient in their waterfront distribution systems.
Rita managed and created a maritime claims department as a satellite branch to the head office in Norway for Star Shipping Canada Ltd. Star Shipping Canada is a break bulk carrier, under a Norwegian flag. Rita demonstrated immense leadership in setting new operative, handling standards with the collaboration of experts, with whom she worked.
Affective processes and procedures were implemented in the prevention of loss and damages to vessel, crew, cargo and port/terminal property. In addition to her past contributions working for freight forwarders and exporters in the resource sector, Rita managed documentation, claims departments and logistics functions for ports and railways.
Today she works as a contractor, providing expertise in all modes of transportation, assuring regulations and policy are not hindering consumer and end-buyers, including exporters, to prosper in the world of trade transactions.
Rita’s expertise in the dry bulk and break bulk industries, in creating track and trace systems to locate cargo, has been most affective in the UNCEFACT track and trace project, utilizing her expertise with a team of experts around the world, all having a background in regulatory, technology, operations, supply chain management.
Today having a world of valuable knowledge in a progressive changing world of regulations and technology deployment along major supply chains, especially in the entry of goods and services, Rita has created seminars to assist all organizations. including policy makers, regulators and law makers. in making the right decisions.
