QICCA Discusses Ways to Resolve Maritime, Engineering Disputes

Doha, October 17 (QNA) - The Qatar International Center of Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA), affiliated to Qatar Chamber, organized an arbitration seminar on mechanisms to resolve maritime and engineering dispute and each sector characteristics and methods. The seminar focused on engineering arbitration and its specificities, since the vast majority of its issues related to the dispute over the implementation of large capital projects, either in terms of delay in implementation or payment, and the dispute over the quality and non-compliance with the agreed standards. QICCA's Assistant Secretary-General Ibrahim Shahbik stressed that QICCA is keen to organize legal meetings on the applications of arbitration in various areas of professional activities and to highlight the follow up of the Qatari arbitration law for those activities. He said that arbitration is based on a set of professional rules and standards that must be observed, especially after arbitration has become the main method of resolving and settling disputes related to the execution of engineering and marine contracts and other economic activities. He pointed out that engineering arbitration has become a prerequisite for solving the problems that may impede the implementation of projects and construction work in addition to resolve the differences that arise between the various parties of the contracts. He added that maritime arbitration is a form of commercial arbitration that requires that the maritime arbitrator be familiar with the marine technical aspects and the operation of the vessel and its navigational and commercial activities. (QNA)