Recently, a case of dispute over a crew employment contract between SYRIANOS GEORGIOS and Angeliki Dynamis Investment Corporation tried by the Guangzhou Maritime Court (GZMC) [Members of the Collegiate Bench: Presiding Judge Cheng Shengxiang; Judge Xie Huicheng and Judge (Undertaker) Xu Chunlong] was published in Chinese Maritime and Commercial Law Reports (Volume 4, 2022) by Informa UK plc., a well-known British publishing house, and was included in its online database Informa i-Law with a wide user base around the world.

Informa UK plc. is known for publishing the Lloyd's Law Reports, which are highly authoritative in the domain of international maritime and commercial affairs. Four issues of the Chinese Maritime and Commercial Law Reports are published a year, with famous maritime and commercial law experts and scholars as the editors-in-chief. The publication includes typical Chinese judicial cases regarding global maritime and commercial law in English to showcase maritime and commercial trial philosophy and judicial views in China, and it is attracting increasing interest from the international community.

In the case of dispute over a crew employment contract between SYRIANOS GEORGIOS and Angeliki Dynamis Investment Corporation, GZMC fully respected the autonomy of the will of the parties concerned, followed the principle of determining the applicable law in accordance with different legal relationships, and took into account its findings and expert opinions provided by the parties. Therefore, it accurately identified and applied the Greek laws, ruled in favor of the foreign crew's claims for employment remuneration, and confirmed that the said maritime claims were subject to maritime lien, thus protecting the foreign crew's legitimate rights and interests. In this case, GZMC actively explored effective ways to identify foreign laws and accurately applied the laws of a different country, which demonstrated China's maritime judicial capabilities and level and provided useful practices for accelerating the establishment and improvement of the legal mechanism for the identification and application of foreign laws in the country.

This case and 14 other cases involving Greek and Filipino crew members tried by GZMC Maritime Division are a series of cases recognized as one of the typical national cases of maritime trials in 2021 by China's Supreme People's Court. The case, published in the law reports of the famous foreign publisher and included in an electronic database, has demonstrated GZMC's in-depth implementation of the strategy of high-quality maritime trials and active dissemination of China's maritime judicial practices to the international community.