Bibliographie sélective OHADA

Pour une première fois dans l’histoire de l’OMC, l’implémentation d’un accord par un pays repose sur sa capacité à le faire. Il s’agit d’une opportunité inouïe pour les Etats de la CEMAC de prendre une part active aux échanges internationaux et de développer leur secteur des transports ainsi que leur tissu économique. Si cette ambition est légitime, il reste que le problème de la facilitation du secteur des transports dans la sous-région est d’ordre logistique, matériel, opérationnel et institutionnel interne aux Etats ainsi qu’à la sous-région. Des efforts doivent être davantage consentis pour tirer le meilleur parti de la plus-value qu’engendrera l’accord. Celui-ci ne saurait être une panacée-miracle tant que les politiques nationales ou sous-régionales ne sont pas cohérentes et la mise en œuvre, commune. Cette cohésion et cette coopération institutionnelles déjà plus ou moins perceptibles, doivent se poursuivre au niveau des différents acteurs opérationnels qui interviennent le long de la chaîne de transport. Le respect de ces conditionnalités constitue le ciment de la réussite du défi de facilitation espérée pour le secteur des transports et des échanges dans la sous-région. For the first time in the history of the WTO, the implementation of an agreement by a country is based on it sability to do so. It is an unprecedented opportunity for the Central African States to take an active part in international trade and to develop their transport sector and their economic fabric. While this ambition is legitimate, the problem of facilitating the transport sector in the sub-regionis of a logistical, material, operational and institutional nature within the States and the sub-region. Efforts must be made to make the most of the added value that the agreement will generate. This can’t be a panacea-miracle as long as national or sub-regional policies are not coherent and implementation is common. This institutional cohesion and cooperation, already more or less perceptible, must continue at the level of the various operational actors involved along the transport chain. Respect for these conditions is the cement of the success of the expected facilitation challenge for the transport and trade sector in the sub-region.

Maritime transport is essential to the world’s economy and maritime arbitration plays a crucial role in maritime dispute resolution. Nowadays, many coastal jurisdictions have set up their own maritime arbitration institutions such as those in the US, the UK, Germany, Australia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Building a national world-advanced maritime arbitration system as soon as possible to suit China’s rapid developments in shipping and international trading does not permit of any delay. How should China improve her laws, rules and institutions, including those for the enforcement of maritime arbitration awards, having regard to leading international maritime arbitration systems? It is posited that selective adaptation from the successful experience of other maritime arbitration systems is the most convenient and effective way to achieve such a goal. This adaptation will follow from a comprehensive and comparative study of the maritime arbitration laws, rules and the maritime arbitration institutions, including the laws relating to the enforcement of maritime arbitration awards, from these main global maritime arbitration centres in order to make China’s maritime arbitration more competitive at the international level. This thesis does not purport to cover every research field relating to maritime arbitration. Instead, as previously stated, it will focus only on the comparative study of some selected key issues of international commercial arbitration among the selected jurisdictions. A comprehensive study of international commercial arbitration or international maritime law is not the subject of this thesis. It should be noted further that this research basically concentrates on the practical problems of maritime arbitration practices, rather than taking an overly theoretical approach. The thesis selects the UK, the US, Singapore and Hong Kong as the target jurisdictions for comparison. Through selective comparative analysis of the key issues of maritime arbitration systems in the selected jurisdictions, which are internationally recognised as significant by many arbitration scholars, this thesis proposes that all these issues could conveniently be categorised into four key criteria; namely, fairness, confidentiality, efficiency and enforceability. It follows that the adaptations of the Chinese maritime arbitration system should mainly focus on these four criteria, as these are the most critical factors for the development of Chinese maritime arbitration system. Moreover, these four criteria should also have significance for other underdeveloped maritime arbitration systems. Also, based on these four key criteria, the thesis provides some specific suggestions on how the Chinese maritime arbitration system can be adapted to reflect other selected jurisdictions in the respects of some key issues of international commercial arbitration.