ETL editor Peter Laurijssen elected Administrator of CMI

At its General Assembly on Friday 15^th May 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, the Comité Maritime International (CMI), elected ETL editor Peter Laurijssen as Administrator and José Angelo Estrella Faria as Secretary General. Together with CMI President, Dr. Ann Fenech, and the CMI Executive Committee, they will be setting out the course of the CMI in the years to come.

The Comité Maritime International is an international maritime law organization. Formed in 1897 in Antwerp, the CMI aims to unify maritime law internationally. It is the first and oldest operating international organization dedicated to maritime law and the second most important maritime organization after the IMO. CMI is the guardian of the York-Antwerp Rules and the mother of international maritime conventions such as the Collision Convention, Ship Arrest Convention, Limitation Convention, the Hague and Hague Visby Rules and many other instruments of international maritime law including the recent Beijing Convention on the International Effects of the Judicial Sale of Ships.

Peter is Legal Director at Compagnie Maritime Belge in Antwerp, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, President of the Belgian Maritime Law Association and Editor of European Transport Law.