(June 6, 2019, Secaucus) On June 6, COSCO SHIPPING (North America) Inc. and COSCO SHIPPING Lines (North America) Inc. jointly held the first legal and compliance seminar in the North America region since the integration of COSCO and China Shipping.
Five experts from leading international law firms attended the seminar as guest speakers, including Epstein Becker Green, Houghes Hubbard & Reed, Collier Walsh Nakazawa and Freehill Hogan & Maher. Each provided attendees with comprehensive presentations on topics such as labor disputes, anti-corruption compliance, US sanctions, and environmental regulations.
President Feng Bo of COSCO SHIPPING (North America) gave the opening speech and conveyed that the company will continue to improve the company’s existing compliance and risk management system, assess risk points that may appear and exist in the company’s business operation, focus on personnel training and strive to create a high-quality, professional legal affairs, compliance and risk management team, and strengthen research on key risk areas, focusing on areas such as merger and acquisition compliance, anti-corruption compliance, antitrust and anti-unfair competition compliance.