• Welcome to CMI

    We are a non-governmental not-for-profit international organization established in Antwerp in 1897, the object of which is to contribute by all appropriate means and activities to the unification of maritime law in all its aspects.

  • About CMI

    The CMI holds a Conference every 3 – 4 years at which the work of International Working Groups and/or International Sub-Committees is debated and, if appropriate, concluded with a resolution at the plenary session at the end of the Conference.

  • Beijing Conference and Shanghai Add-On

    The next CMI Conference will be held in Beijing October 14 - 19, 2012 and Shanghai October 20 - 22, 2012. The Conference Hotel will be the Beijing Kempinski Hotel, 50 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100125, P.R.C. For more info please visit: www.cmi2012beijing.org

 

Announcements & Events


CMI/NMLA Events
  • Italy - Event "Carriage of passengers travelling by sea and cruise contracts: the legislative novelties", Genoa 11 June 2012
  • Bejing Conference and Shanghai Add-On www.cmi2012beijing.org
  • Japanese MLA - Symposium Tokyo 21-22 November 2012

OTHER Events
  • Iberoamerican Institute of Maritime Law - Change of President - May 2012 
  • Summer Academy at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg from 22 July to 18 August, 2012 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Article about the CMI published in the BIMCO Bulletin
  • IMLI: CMI Former President, Patrick Griggs, receives the title of Doctor of International Maritime Law Honoris Causa
  • Appointment of Vice-President Johanne Gauthier as Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal in Canada
  • At the Graduation Ceremony on 5 May of the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI), the CMI was given an Award for its work towards the unification of maritime law.


 

About CMI

The CMI holds a Conference every 3 – 4 years at which the work of International Working Groups and/or International Sub-Committees is debated and, if appropriate, concluded with a resolution at the plenary session at the end of the Conference.

In between the Conferences, Colloquia and Symposia are sometimes organised by National Maritime Law Association in conjunction with the CMI. In years when there is such a meeting, the annual Assembly of the CMI will be organised in conjunction therewith and otherwise as a separate event.

CMI History

The Comite Maritime International (CMI) was formally established in 1897. It is a non-governmental not-for-profit international organisation established in Antwerp, the object of which is to contribute by all appropriate means and activities to the unification of maritime law in all its aspects.