Maritime arbitrations

In this article the author explains maritime arbitrations, as a type of specialized arbitrations. These are arbitrations that solve disputes between participants in maritime activities and related accidents (e.g., collision, general average). At the first place, the author analyses the basic cases where maritime arbitration is contracted, such as charter party, construction of ship, sale of ship, collision, salvage or general average. After that, he points to their main particularities comparing with other types of arbitrations (e.g. exclusion of lawyers, consolidation of procedures), as well as to different way of solving maritime disputes between western and Asian arbitrations. The author also explains the basic differences between common law and civil law arbitrations. He concludes the article by contemplating to the reasons of importance of maritime arbitrations for Serbia.