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TRADING ON THE BABEL TOWER I would like to share in this article, some insights and  personal perceptions about the  negotiations, regarding to some companies and peoples from abroad where I took a part in  deals and for the sake of good order, henceforth shall be called as Contractors. Therefore,  this post, by no means intend to be a business manual, or guide book even because should be untenable to describe so vast and complex subject in a few words and lines. I have not such a claim. Working in the maritime industry for more than 27 years, dealing with a multicultural people, commercial managers, head of contract and others remarkable responsible persons, feel myself fortunate to have learned with my colleagues, some knowledge and tips that end up to be embeded in the way of doing business. Each country and people holds specific details and behaviour to do business and achieving the best results in contract dealing, no matter wha...

                                     photo courtesy: google photos The Brazilian grain harvest regarding to crop 2017/2018 has begun. The Expectancy is to hit a sum of 223, millions of tons, with emphasis on soyabean seeds, predictions to reach 112,3 millions of tons. Our law office is focused in this market. Soyabean shipment is a complex operation services and has its own procedures, as from the data entry of export documents in Siscomex system(Customs), cargoes storage and conveying to the vessels holds must be checked by technicians, surveyors and the assesment of others skilled stakeholders. Most of complaints usualy are stemmed from soyabeans loading into vessel´s holds. And are related to the cargo temperature and moisture during and after loading. P&I clubs are recommending the cargo temperature during the loading operations around 25 and 30º C with and a...

AMUSING BUSINESS DINNER Last week I was pleased to meet again and  have a dinner with my former partner and his family. Among several discussions he recalled the second and last travel we made to Greece and Italy to canvass new business contracts with ship owners and managers. At that time we found a brazilian colleague in a coffee bar in Piraeus a beautifull and pleasant city, less crowded that Athens city. whence, we have had an opportunity to meet a vessel´s superintendente acccompanied by the brazilian guy, which, in turn unveiled to us an urgente demand by one of the vessels managed by his company with several technical pending issues by the port state control(PSC) in Brazil. Most part of these pendencies, should be solved out before the ship leaves the Brazilian ports and cleared by the vessels class society. So, next day morning we went to the companys office. How surprise were for the luxury and refinement of the company, located at Glyfada, Athens. ...

UMA MOEDA PARA O BARQUEIRO - II Partindo de aparente cognição ao pensamento da geração “Z” percebe-se que a ênfase é a polarização. Se por um lado sobra entusiasmo para mudar o mundo, por outro, sobeja o pessimismo e o desapontamento. Os encantos do mundo digital, assistidos pela tecnologia da informação com todas as suas ferramentas de inovação, tem produzidos nesta geração uma espécie de religião virtual. Onde não há espaço e tempo impondo limites. Todos buscam a verdade para cada um, correm juntos, mas os interesses são difusos, produzindo uma sensação de realidade líquida, disforme, conforme palavras do sociólogo, polonês Zygmunt Bauman em seu livro “modernidade Líquida”. Se comparamos os ensinamentos de Aristóteles, temos que; os indivíduos eram educados nos melhores princípios éticos e morais, além do conhecimento científico, para serem bons e qualificados cidadãos, capazes de praticar belas ações. Estas ações, com o tempo, reverteriam em favor da cole...

This is realy a Titãs clash there are several underlying interest playing a big role in this business. The climate change policy is only a detail lay down on this chessboard, its something like the oyster amid the  Strong waves against the cliffs. This kind of litigation will take a long time and there will be no losers, except... the less fortunates stakeholders... read more at http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/the-rockefellers-vs-exxon.html

ELOGIO DA LOUCURA Aproveitando o feriado, “nestas noites quentes de verão”, parafraseando o poeta Cazuza, curtindo as comemorações natalinas, passei a examinar a estante em busca de algum livro para ler e passar o tempo. Eis que ao lançar os olhos um pouco mais acima, deparei-me com a excelente obra literária do magnifico escritor e humanista Erasmo de Roterdã, intitulada:  ELOGIO DA LOUCURA. [i] Trata-se de uma grande sátira e crítica mordaz à sociedade Europeia, aos potentados da época e a Igreja ocidental em suas mazelas na busca pelo poder no século XV e XVI.  A comparação com a sociedade, igreja e classe política de nossos tempos é inevitável, alterando somente o cenário em que os atos dos personagens sobrevêm. Principalmente em ano de eleição que nos espera em 2018 Mas... deixemos de lado os encômios e passemos a leitura de um dos excertos do livro, encontrado à página 7. Faculto aos leitores as comparações, pertinentes. ...Nascida no...

photo source   Regarding to the fire occured   last thursday 17th, in the Logistic warehouse,   nearby Capuaba Ports,   Vila Velha city, call to mind the liabilites involved in this kind of sinister. the insurancy companies policies shall be applied to each party concerned and the cargoes damaged thereof. For sure, several claims will arise of this misfortune. The insurance companies Will be demanded by the stakeholders to settle the amount more fast and will be subrogated in the proper insured rights to regress against who gave cause to the damages. according to Brazilian law in force, civil code 2015 – art.    757. “Under the insurance contract, the insurer undertakes, upon payment of the premium, to guarantee the legitimate interest of the insured person or thing, against predetermined risks”. Usually, the proper insurance policy provide a clause enabling the underwriters acting on behalf of the insured. The underwriters can subrog...