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Pieter de Vries

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FCIArb · Rotterdam

Experience
35 yrs
Appointments
260
As presiding
40
Seat
Rotterdam
Law
England & Wales
Focus
Maritime / Shipping Grains & Oilseeds Coal
Rules
LMAA FOSFA GAFTA
Langs
Dutch — native English — fluent German — fluent

01Biography

Updated Oct 2026

Rotterdam trade arbitrator with thirty-five years in vegetable oils, grain and dry-bulk disputes.

Pieter started in the claims department of a Rotterdam vegetable-oil trader in 1985 and has never left the trade: first as counsel, since 2000 as arbitrator. He has sat in well over two hundred FOSFA and GAFTA references and in a long line of LMAA dry-bulk disputes.

He is one of the few arbitrators who has personally sampled a cargo hold and still prefers hearings where the documents are on the table.

02Representative matters

Confidential · party names withheld

  • Grains & Oilseeds 2023

    Sunflower oil string contract dispute over free fatty acid content and the buyer's rejection at discharge.

    Sole arbitrator FOSFA · England & Wales
    $2.9M

  • Coal 2021

    Demurrage and dead-freight dispute under a coal voyage charter; laytime calculation at a congested discharge port.

    Sole arbitrator LMAA · England & Wales
    $1.1M

  • Grains & Oilseeds 2020

    Default under a wheat sale contract following an export ban; damages under the GAFTA default clause.

    Presiding arbitrator GAFTA · England & Wales
    $7.5M

03Qualifications & memberships

Admissions & appointments

  • 1989 Advocaat, Rotterdam
  • 2000 FCIArb

Professional memberships

FOSFA Arbitrator GAFTA Arbitrator NAI Panel Chartered Institute of Arbitrators