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Maritime Arbitration in Piraeus
By Dimitri G. Capaitzis
Naval Architect and Marine Engineer
D.G. Capaitzis Ltd

Dr. Antonios D Tsavdaridis

Court proceedings may be stayed in cases where a preliminary matter in the proceedings is also the subject matter of a pending arbitration that does not involve the same parties.

When an arbitral award is invoked before an administrative court in the course of litigation stemming from an agreement between the Greek state and a private party, the court has no authority to rule on the expiry of the agreement if the award, although rendered in another case, was issued under the arbitration mechanism provided in the same agreement between the same parties and for the same issue.

I must admit the last 5 years, during almost 20 years of experience in shipping field, I had to develop and gain additional skills as an insurance broker, among which using initiatives, questioning everything and acting as intermediary to bring two parties together. Yet, these skills are the very same important skills of a mediator. I became mediator in 2012, accredited by CEDR and Greek Ministry of Justice, and I can imagine the role of mediator is particularly tough as the parties are looking at him/her to help them find a solution.

Dr. Antonios D. Tsavdaridis