The maritime agent, his functions and the responsibility in the claims of labor nature

Abstract

The maritime agent performs a series of functions related to the entry, stay, supply and departure of the vessel in a specific port being designated by the captain, owner or shipowner with whom it is linked through a mandate contract. The special regulations grant him the status of legal representative, thus showing the active and passive, judicial and extrajudicial legitimization of his agent in all claims for or against him. The intervention in all the steps are made within the contractual contractual relationship, then the businesses that are arranged are in representation or on behalf of their agents so it is not reached by the responsibility that emanates from possible breaches or accrual of debts. These, except for those breaches of contract in which it incurs. In principle, the legal action in labor litigation directly directed against the maritime agent does not reach its patrimony, except in the case of labor fraud or not having been able to prove his condition as representative of the captain, owner or shipowner, in his judicial presentation.