Full Description
This book is the definitive guide to all aspects of this important part of International Trade Law. Relied upon by generations of students and practitioners alike, this market leading text is renowned for combining a critical, in-depth examination of all aspects of the law relating to the carriage of goods by sea.
Contents
Part One: General introduction
1. Introduction
2. Implied obligations in a contract of affreightment
Part Two: Charterparties
3. The voyage charterparty
4. The time charterparty
Part Three
5. Bills of lading and their functions
6. Application of the Hague/Visby Rules
7. Bills of lading - the Hamburg Rules
8. Bills of lading - the Rotterdam Rules
9. Bills of lading issued under charterparties
10. Problems of combined transport
Part Four: Common aspects of contracts of affreightment
11. Exceptions
12. Limitation of liability
13. Freight
14. Shipowners' liens
Part Five: Dispute settlement
15. Dispute settlement
16. Breach of contract
Appendix 1: Bills of Lading Act 1855
Appendix 2: International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading, 1924 (The Hague Rules)
Appendix 3: Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971
Appendix 4: Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992
Appendix 5: United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 (The Hamburg Rules)
Appendix 6: United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, 2009 (The Rotterdam Rules)
Appendix 7: CMI Uniform Rules for Sea Waybills
Appendix 8: CMI Rules for Electronic Bills of Lading
Appendix 9: Barecon 2001 Charter
Appendix 10: Gencon 94 Charter
Appendix 11: Shellvoy 6 Charter
Appendix 12: Baltime 1939 Charter (as revised 2001)
Appendix 13: New York Produce Exchange (NYPE 46) Charter
Appendix 14: New York Produce Exchange (NYPE 93) Charter
Appendix 15: Shelltime 4 Charter (as amended 2003)
Appendix 16: Conlinebill 1978
Appendix 17: Congenbill 2000
Appendix 18: Congenbill
Appendix 19: Maersk Line bill
Appendix 20: GCBS Short Form Bill
Appendix 21: Combiconbill
Appendix 22: Maersk Line Waybill
