On the afternoon of April 8, 2020, Executive Vice President and Secretary-General Cai Delin of Zhuhai Harbor Association was invited to Zhuhai court for an exchange of view, Director Wu Guining of the court made deep exchange with him on the issues of how to serve the local shipping and harbor enterprises and safeguard the building of the Greater Bay Area. Both of them proposed specific implementation plan on co-building multiple dispute resolution mechanism to improve enterprises’ risk control, sharing of industry information to legal consultancy services, and to further strengthen last year’s Framework on Cooperation Agreement. They also planned to make field research on enterprises to figure out the impact of the coronavirus and make preparation for handling the coronavirus-related disputes.

After the meeting, Cai also presided over the pre-litigation meditation of the two local enterprises’ dispute over ship building contract. The two enterprises reached a meditation consensus and agreed to negotiate the settlement at Zhuhai Harbor Association office next week. Cai said that thanks to his own working experiences and industry knowledge, which makes the two party agree a lot, there is great hope that the dispute will be resolved before litigation. Next, the Association will invite specialists, scholars and business backbones from the member units to join the special maritime meditation team, to improve the multiple dispute resolution mechanism and practically solve the dispute at the beginning, thence to serve the local enterprises in a down-to-earth manner.