enjoys a geographically strategic status, as it is located at the core heart of Alexandria, one of the most significant ports on the Mediterranean. The Board of Directors of ACIMA launched a move towards further promotion of maritime arbitration in the region by propagating and introducing the advantages of regional maritime arbitration, providing adequate academic basis in the field to eliminate what might still seem to some as 'obscurities of maritime arbitration', and establishing a maritime information resource centre to provide a sufficient and adequate theoretical background and to help conduct relevant researches.


The Alexandria Centre for International Arbitration (ACIA)

The Alexandria Centre for International Arbitration was established on June 2001 in cooperation with Alexandria Businessmen Association as a branch of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration to administer commercial arbitration and other peaceful non-binding means of avoiding and settling trade and investment disputes. In this respect, ACIA applies the UNCITRAL Rules as adopted by the Cairo Centre.

Moreover, the Centre has the activity of conducting seminars and training programs under the auspices of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.


The Mediation & ADR Centre

The Mediation and ADR Centre was established on August 2001 as a branch of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration to administer mediation and other peaceful non-binding means of avoiding and settling trade and investment disputes.

Upon their request, the Centre provides the parties with legal advice and recommendations. A panel of legal experts and specialists shall assist the parties, according to the Centre's rules, to avoid potential disputes whether in the stage of concluding or performing the contract. Mediation is administered in accordance with the Rules of the Centre issued in 1990.

The Centre also administers conciliation under its auspices according to the Rules of Conciliation of 1980 issued by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

The parties may amend these rules or agree on any other rules.

The Centre shall meet the requests of the arbitral tribunals and any other parties, to provide them with technical expertise in different fields. The Centre shall nominate specialized experts from the lists prepared for this purpose.

The Centre shall also meet the requests for administering Mini-Trials and Claim Review Board.


The Port Said Centre for Commercial and Maritime Arbitration

On February 2004, the Port Said Centre for Commercial and Maritime Arbitration, a branch of the Cairo Centre, was established upon an agreement with the Suez Canal Authority.

The Port Said Centre for International Commercial and Maritime Arbitration was meant to deal with commercial and maritime disputes. What adds to the significance of Port Said Centre is that it enjoys a geographically strategic status as it is seated in Port Said, a vital port as well as one of the Suez Canal Cities, the historic maritime route connecting between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.



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