Dr. Manolis Konstantinidis is the manager of the Legal Department of Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Limited, which currently manages 80 vessels. He mainly deals with charterparty disputes, which are in principle arbitrated at LMAA and/ or before local courts all over the world, and cargo claims. He has also dealt with S&P disputes, shipbuilding contracts and corporate financing matters/ disputes.

He obtained his LLB and his PhD from the Law School of the University of Thrace and an LL.M in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton. His interest include carriage of goods by sea, charterparties, bills of lading, general admiratly law, limitation of liability, collisions and general average.

He is member of the Piraeus Bar Association, entitled to plead before the Court of Appeal, and a supporting member of the LMAA. He is also lecruring on certain aspects of Maritime Law (law of chartperties and collisions) as a guest speaker at the Maritime Law Master Degree in Athens Law School and he is the co-instructor, as external speaker, of Maritime Law at the Msc in International Shipping, Finance and Management in the Athens University of Economics and Business. He has participated in numerous international and national conferences pertaining to Maritime Law.

He has written prolifically in his areas of expertise, including his latest contribution in Maritime Law, A. Antapassis/ L. Athanassiou (2020).