Shipping law

• Main Author: Baughen, Simon.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2009.
• Edition: 4th ed.
• Subjects: Maritime law > Great Britain.; Maritime law.; LAW > Military.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

Shipping Law covers the whole spectrum of English shipping law. It takes a structured and integrated approach to the highly specialised rules of shipping, which are placed in their commercial context and related to the general principles of English contract and tort law. The fourth edition has been...

Table of Contents:

• The commercial background
• Title to sue
• Providing loss or damage in transit
• The terms of the bill of lading contract
• Statutory terms of the bill of lading contract
• The future : the Hamburg Rules and the Rotterdam Rules
• Combined transport
• Carriage by road-CMR
• Charterparties
• Voyage charterparties-payment of freight
• Voyage charters-laytime and demurrage
• Time charters
• Damages and frustration
• Collisions
• Salvage
• General average
• Marine pollution
• Jurisdiction and applicable law
• Security and interim relief
• Limitation of liability.