Shipping Law Research Institute of Guangdong Province Law Society, 2019 CSAE of Traffic Law Research Institute of Guangzhou Law Society and the founding congress of Guangzhou Shipping Law Research Society convened in GZMC on the morning of June 29, 2019.

The opening ceremony was presided by lawyer Zhao Shuzhou of Wang Jing & Co., President of GZMC Ye Liudong and Vice Secretary-General of Guangdong Province Law Society Xue Xiaoguang made an opening speech for it.

President Ye emphasized that unmanned ships are the latest outcome of technological innovation, and it has become the hot topic in maritime circles with its increasingly maturity. So we should seize the opportunity and plan in advance, by explore and establish rules for unmanned ships and related law issues so that the Great Bay Area can have a say in it.

In the first session of the meeting, the discussion on the issue of “Compensation for Vessel-Induced Oil Pollution Damage” was presided by Ni Xuewei, who is the Vice-chairman of Shipping Law Research Institute of Guangdong Province Law Society and Director of Research Office of GZMC. Some people put forward their views and analyzed some relevant law issues of it, they were Director Xu Guangyu of Guang Yu & Co., Director Yang Yunfu of Yang&LinCo. Law Firm and judge Wu Guining of GZMC.

Guo Ping, Vice Chairman of Shipping Law Research Institute of Guangdong Province Law Society and Professor of School of Law of Sun Yat-senUniversity, chaired the second discussion of “Relevant Law Issues related to Unmanned Ships”. Several people shared their thoughts on the unmanned ships and analyzed the relevant legal issues of it. And director Pan Deng of Yunzhou Intelligent technology co., LTD explained the fast technological development of unmanned ships from the perspective of intelligent system design.

The meeting was a great success.