DR. LUCIENNE CARASSO BULOW
MARITIME AND INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATOR AND MEDIATOR
* MULTILINGUAL, DEDICATED NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL MARITIME AND COMMERCIAL ARBITRATOR
* MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF MARITIME ARBITRATORS, INC. (SMA) since 1980. FIRST WOMAN MEMBER.
PAST PRESIDENT, 1997 TO 2001
* MEMBER OF THE COMMERCIAL PANEL OF THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION (AAA)
* MEMBER OF THE NEUTRALS PANEL OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ICDR) OF
THE AAA.
* MEMBER OF THE ENERGY ARBITRATORS LIST OF THE ICDR.
* MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (ICC) ARBITRATION PANEL.
* PASSED THE ACCELERATED ROUTE TO CIArb FELLOWSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
* MEMBER OF THE SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF MARITIME ARBITRATION (SCMA)
* MANY YEARS SUPPORTING MEMBER OF THE LONDON MARITIME ARBITRATORS ASSOCIATION BEFORE WHOSE MEMBERS I PRESENTED MANY CASES BOTH ON DOCUMENTS AND IN PERSON.
* EXPERIENCED IN ENGLISH ARBITRATION PRACTICES AND LAW.
* TRAINED MEDIATOR AND MEMBER OF THE AAA'S ROSTER OF MEDIATORS.
Full time independent ADR neutral since 2000. Appointed in more than 525 international and domestic commercial cases of varying sizes and complexity covering a broad spectrum of issues including: international commercial cases under maritime contracts of all types and under sales contracts of commodities of dry, liquid and gaseous products, trading, telecommunications, construction, securities, employment.
The 160+ cases, which proceeded to hearings and/or an award, included cases involving transportation, chartering, time charter vessel operations, demurrage/dispatch, disputes under time and voyage charter parties, service contracts, contracts of affreightment, bills of lading, cargo shortage/damage claims concerning all sorts of cargoes such as petrochemicals, crude oil, bunkers, gas, grain, coal, sulfur, fertilizers, metals, scrap, aluminum, LPG, LNG, dangerous products in bulk, containers, etc. A great number of those cases arose under sales contracts involving the sale and purchase of a great variety of products, their characteristics and storage, and post loading disputes. Sat as arbitrator in cases involving oil and grain trading disputes, in physical or in futures, trading, marine insurance, service liner agreements, intermodal supply contracts, terminal tariffs, tolling agreements for the storage of commodities, ship construction, sale, leasing and repair of vessels, salvage of recreational vessels, recreational yacht policies, supply vessels for oil drilling rigs, large infrastructure projects, hydraulic project construction, employment, personal injury on cruise vessels, securities.
Also served as arbitrator in cases relating to agency and brokerage agreements, joint ventures, throughput agreements, transportation by tug and barge, rail or truck, container vessels and contamination of energy products, steel plants, refineries, grain elevators and container terminal operations, mining, undersea telecommunications cables, floating platforms, oil rigs, damage to port facilities, as well as in cases involving telecommunications, modems, wireless, satellite transponders, yacht construction, terminal construction.
Served as party representative in over 750 arbitrations involving maritime and commodities disputes, marine insurance, cargo claims, disputes under grain, oilseeds and vegetable oil sales contracts, grain elevator tariffs before arbitrators in New York, London and Paris. Cases included disputes regarding chartering, time charter operations, speed and consumption, demurrage, post loading operations, laytime, navigation, dangerous cargoes under charter parties and commodities disputes under FOB NAEGA sales contracts, and C&F contracts under GAFTA and FOSFA contracts. Dealt with disputes relating to intermodal transportation by train, tugs and barges. Presented cases before LMAA (London Maritime Arbitrators Association), GAFTA (Grain and Feed Trade Association) and FOSFA (Federation of Oils Seeds and Fats Association) arbitrators in London and before SMA (Society of Maritime Arbitrators), NAEGA (North American Export Grain Association) and AAA arbitrators in New York.
As one of six Commissioners of Pilots for the State of New York, I license ship pilots and act as hearing officer in cases involving navigational issues.
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