Cargill International SA v. M/T Pavel Dybenko

Abstract

572State immunity — State entity — Enforcement by third party of arbitration clause in contract — Whether State-owned corporation in early stages of privatisation entitled to immunity — Whether immunity implicitly waived by conclusion of contract containing arbitration clause — Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards — United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976 — The law of the United States