On April 18-19, 2019 the XIII International Scientific and Practical Conference “Maritime Law and Management: Evolution and Modern Challenges” was held at National University “Odessa Maritime Academy”. The purpose of the conference was to discuss actual issues of effective legal regulation and management in the field of using the maritime complex and infrastructure, as well as other perspective directions of Ukraine’s development in the conditions of globalization and European integration.

The conference considered the following topics: maritime law, marine management, legal and management aspects of Ukraine’s development in the context of European integration, humanistic problems of sustainable development.

On April 19, the lawyers of “ANK” company in the name of O.M. Kifak, M.I. Karpenko, O.A. Pushtskaya., O.V. Koch delievered their speeches. Within the framework of the conference the leading specialists held an open lecture on “Taxation of Seafarers’ Profit: Practical Aspects”, revealing the following issues: forms of taxation for Ukraininan seamen, voluntary pension provision, innovations in currency regulation, relations between seaman and crewing company in the aspect of taxation.

At the end of the event, the results of the work were summed up, the reports and speeches of the participants of the scientific and practical conference were discussed. It is planned to publish a collection of abstracts of participants’ reports according to the results of the conference.