Maritime Arbitration Commission at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Legal Status and Competence

MAC is a permanent arbitration center (third-party court), it was given its current legal status by the Law of the Russian Federation on International Commercial Arbitration, enacted on July 7, 1993, Statute on the MAC, which is an Annex II to the above mentioned Law, and also by the Rules of the MAC.

MAC shall settle disputes arising from contractual and other civil-law relations deriving from merchant shipping, irrespective of whether the parties to these relations include both Russian and foreign entities, or whether the parties are only Russian entities or only foreign entities. In particular, the Maritime Arbitration Commission shall settle disputes arising from relations:

• concerning the affreightment of vessels, the carriage of goods by sea, as well as the carriage of goods in mixed navigation (river-sea);
• concerning marine towage of vessels or other floating objects;
• concerning marine insurance and reinsurance;
• connected with the sale of seagoing vessels and other floating objects, their repairs and maritime liens;
• concerning piloting, ice-breaker navigation, and agency and other services for seagoing vessels, and for inland vessels insofar as the operations are connected with the navigation of such vessels on sea routes;
• connected with the use of vessels for scientific research, extraction of minerals, hydrotechnical or other work;
• concerning the salvaging of seagoing vessels or the salvaging of an inland vessel by a seagoing vessel, as well as the salvaging in marine waters of an inland vessel by another inland vessel;
• connected with the raising of vessels or other property sunken in marine waters;
• connected with a collision between seagoing vessels, or between a seagoing vessel and an inland vessel, or between inland vessels in marine waters, as well as connected with the infliction by a vessel of  damage to port structures, navigational aids or other objects;
• connected with the infliction of damage to fishing nets or other fishing gear, as well as with other infliction of injury in conducting the maritime fishery trade.

The Maritime Arbitration Commission shall also settle disputes arising in connection with navigation of seagoing vessels and inland vessels on international rivers in the instances specified in the present Article, as well as disputes connected with international shipping by inland vessels.
The Commission shall also entertain disputes which the parties are bound to refer to it by virtue of international treaties to which the Russian Federation is a party.