Charter Party Workshop in Spanish

Former President of the Colombian Maritime Law Association, titulary member of the International Maritime Committee (CMI) and member of the IWG on Lex Marítima. He is also a member of the Customs and Trade Facilitation Commission at ICC Colombia and serves on the Maritime Hull & Liabilities Committee, the Legal Observatory and the Claims Observatory of the Latin American Association of Marine Underwriters (ALSUM). 

He was part of the expert working group that drafted the first version of Colombia’s Maritime Code proposal for the Colombian Maritime Authority (DIMAR). He holds an LL.M. in International Commercial and Maritime Law from Swansea University, UK (Distinction, 2009) and was recently granted a doctorate (honoris causa) by the Centro Universitario de Estudios Jurídicos. His most notable academic contributions include the book “Legal Aspects of Logistics and Logistics Services Contracts” (2014) and his coordination of “Perspectives on Maritime Law and Logistics” (2023). 

He is an Arbitrator at the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, a Research Professor in Commercial Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia, and the Director of the Logistics Observatory at the same university. Additionally, he is a Partner at Franco & Abogados Asociados. He also serves as the Director of the International Working Group on Trade Facilitation and Sustainability at the Center for Ocean Policy and Economics (USA) and is a BIMCO-certified trainer.

Attorney, graduated from the Universidad de Concepción (Chile). Holds a Master's degree in Maritime and Transport Law from Aix-Marseille University (France). In 2022, he obtained a university certificate in arbitration with highest honors from Université Paris-Saclay (France).
He is the author of several specialized publications on maritime law, insurance law, and environmental law in various national and international legal journals. Currently, he serves as a professor for the arbitration law module in the Master's in Private Law at the Universidad de Concepción.
Partner at Fernández & Leiva Abogados, a law firm based in Santiago, Chile. His practice focuses on insurance law, maritime law, and high-complexity litigation and arbitration.
Fluent in Spanish, French, and English.

Managing Partner of the Insurance Division of Grupo Delmex . As part of his achievements, he has established the company P&I Services Mexico as a leading company in Correspondent in Mexico.  He currently continues his performance as a Correspondent, handling hundreds of cases a year representing P&I Clubs, Shipowners, Port Terminals, Reshippers, Port Agents, etc. in various incidents including collisions, cargo damage, theft, delays, and more. He was instrumental in the creation of the 2019-2022 counternarcotics task force, exponentially improving conditions for vessels inadvertently affected by narcotics contamination in Mexico. Speaker at various international and national seminars covering aspects of civil liability within the framework of the rules of P&I Clubs.

Maria Laura Salazar is BIMCO’s Assistant Customer Success Manager for the Americas. She is a maritime legal professional with over a decade of experience in the industry. She has held diverse roles within the shipping industry and started her career path on Ship Management companies.
Passionate about industry development and foster collaborations, she has been actively involved in global maritime organizations. She is the first representative for the Americas on the Board of YoungShip International, an active member of WISTA USA and Venezuela, and is also actively engaged with the Technology Committee of WISTA International.

Madie has more than 15 years of experience, mainly in the shipping agency side. She joined BIMCO in 2022 as Assistant Manager-Americas, being in charge of helping and supporting our members in the Americas and SmartCon users around the world.  In July 2025 she moved to Denmark and her current role involves continued support for Training and Membership operations. As part of the initiatives focused on the Spanish-speaking region, Madie has actively participated in the organisation and promotion of content in Spanish, which have been very well received.