Ann Fenech, Head of our Marine Litigation Department and President of the CMI – Comité Maritime International, was yesterday awarded the Newsmaker of the Year award during a Ceremony held on the eve of the Malta Maritime Summit. The award was given by Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Public Works Hon. Chris Bonett.

In her acceptance speech, Dr Fenech expressed her honour and privilege at receiving the Newsmaker of the Year Award saying that numerous persons present also deserved the award in view of the collective effort made in pushing the Malta maritime industry and agenda forward on the international and national front. She also shared her experience in the three years of leading the CMI, of gaining insight into what was indeed required to achieve unification of international maritime law. This was as exemplified in the CMI’s work in pushing forward the adoption of the Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships, in which Malta played a key role.

Dr Fenech ended by thanking her colleagues within the CMI and Fenech and Fenech, the various technical and legal practitioners she has worked with and Transport Malta directorates, regulators and politicians for sharing the common agenda of achieving the best results for Maritime Malta.