The Contentious Administrative Court of Appeal held that the dispute between the parties – which concerned a shipbuilding contract – was not commercial under Argentinian law. As a consequence, since Argentina made the second, or “commercial”, reservation to the New York Convention, the Convention was not applicable here. The Court explained that the Province of Buenos Aires, through Astillero, acted within its administrative function when it concluded the shipbuilding contract with Milantic, as Astillero entered into the contract to promote a public interest, as opposed to a private interest or benefit.