Shipping Law

Have a close look into this fully revised and thoroughly updated work devoted to the law of towage providing readers with the comprehensive professional account of the law together with the detailed analysis and commentary on the standard contracts commonly used in the industry including several most widely used forms.

The publication has already established itself as an excellent text prepared by one of the leading experts and shipping practitioners having a truly great experience in the field. The author has analyzed the drafting history of the standard contract forms and covered the arbitration decisions.

The content was worked out from the practitioner's viewpoint and with an eye on the potential situation that may happen in practice, providing all readers from the newcomers and students to the professional lawyers with the required guidance on the contract forms and advice on the areas where the contracts may need amendment. Try this book and you will benefit from a wealth of useful information it contains.

This is the leading text-book on the marine construction and shipbuilding contracts - it is already very popular and globally used by the shipbuilders, ship owners as well as by their legal and commercial advisers. The original edition of the book was released more than a decade ago and there have been so many significant changes in the shipbuilding world, and most of the important changes took place after 2008 - that was the time where numerous attempts were done by the ship owners trying to renegotiate the delivery dates and pricing as well as the dramatic increase in the number of rejected contracts and cancellation disputes.

The content of the book is examining the major principles of the English contract law as applicable to the ship construction. The volume shall be treated as the essential reading for the shipyards and offshore constructors, charterers and purchasers of the newly delivered tonnage, banks and similar financial entities, insurers and lawyers working in the industry. The amount and quality of the information selected by the author for inclusion in the book and the way it is presented have made this publication a leading one in the world and gained worldwide popularity.

In the maritime shipping industry, the Master of the vessel is often mentioned in cases, occasionally as a party and frequently in obiter dicta and is discussed in the secondary sources and reviews; however, there are usually not too many references available to follow for many interesting points. In this publication by Informa the authors have placed in a single book a survey of the law affecting the shipmaster within the jurisdictions in which he finds himself and his vessel.

Note that the present volume is neither about how to be a shipmaster nor about the practice of shipmastering to the top standards - it is a book placing the Master in context of shipping law, regulation, custom, and practice both domestically and internationally in the different legal domains in which he might be examined. The topics addressed in this volume include the doctrines of the "Law of the Shipmaster" and the major domestic laws that commonly govern the master of the vessel in the UN States and the IMO; Principal References; Charter parties; Constitutions; Maritime Statutes; List of Acronyms; Convention and Codes. In short, this is a must-have publication for the practicing lawyers and for the students.

The present volume written by Francisco Vicuna was released to explain all problems as well as the pressures on the fisheries operating on the high seas currently; the author has also analyzed how subject situation is actually leading to the significant changes in both environmental and legal considerations that normally govern these activities.

He provides detailed examinations of the relevant international agreements and conventions discussing them together with the major developments in the field of the state practice plus the actions that are being undertaken by the different international organizations - all of them have been presented in the tables.

The conservation of fisheries and their management have been covered, and the matters of compliance and enforcement in these fisheries have been paid particular attention. Long story short, this is a book for those involved in the activities related to the fisheries operating in high sea and willing to be aware of all relevant issues.

In this very comparative and thorough study of shipping interdiction, the author considers the State action of searching, stopping and arresting foreign flag vessels with their crew on the high seas in case of piracy, drug smuggling, slavery, migrant smuggling, fisheries management, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and maritime terrorism.

This book will be very useful to those engaged in any shipping related activities. The author has also provided good examination of the rules governing the use of force and human rights protection, as well as the compensation for incorrect interdiction. The publication is very well written and contains the results of the very well performed research, that is why it is so highly readable and authoritative. The author has managed to catch the balance between the depth and detail, providing readers with the in-depth analysis.

This is a recommended reading for literally all players of the maritime industry since none of the topics covered in the book may be considered irrelevant to any category of people working in the industry; in fact, they are all equally affecting everyone and shall be taken good care of in order to provide safe and efficient operation.

The main aim of this volume is to introduce the readers to the modern legal concepts that surround the process of ship registration and to provide them with an objective and correct assessment of all issues commonly arising when so-called "flags of convenience" (or "open registers") are used, plus to perform detailed examination of the procedures in numerous key jurisdictions.

The content of the publication incorporates the individual national chapters with the materials being presented in a common format to enable the busy practitioners to gain ready and quick access to the relevant information and easily compare the requirements of one jurisdiction with another. This latest edition of the title has been significantly expanded and now includes several new chapters that are devoted to Belize, Singapore and NIS, standing for the Norwegian International Register.

The majority of the national chapters include an additional section that deals with the yachts where the flag authorities adopted relevant codes of practice applicable to commercial yachts or other measures implemented to attract private and commercial yachts to their flag. Ironically, going from open registers to national registers has broadened the categories of ship owners qualified to be owners of registered vessels in those jurisdictions...

Today, sea transportation plays a significant role in the international transport of raw and mineral materials, in addition to other types of goods. This is partially due to the huge distance between the supply and demand markets as well as the nature of global trade.

Because of the diversity in demands in the field of carriage of goods in national and especially international markets, different types of sea transportation contracts are required to fulfill distinct demands. Generally, two different types of contracts of affreightment exist : 1) Bills of lading and 2) charterparties which are governed by a specific legal framework and different provisions. Various forms of charterparties have their own provisions, legal framework and standard forms.

One of the most commonly used form of charterparties is voyage charterparty based on which the charterer charters the vessel to carry cargo from agreed port or ports to determined port or ports, hi voyage charterparty, every act which is related to management, crewing, supplying the fuel and paying for it, port charges and every other necessary issue concerning the carriage of goods by the vessel and its operation, remains in the hands of the ship-owner, in return, the charterer has the duty to pay the freight and provide the cargo based on the contract.

An excellent book on the shipping law, intended to describe the fundamental principles of the English law of marine carriage of goods. The publication is primarily aimed at students, though it is should not be treated as a reference book. The author, Paul Todd, is one of the leading experts in this field and professor in the Southampton University - he has tried to offer his readers an easily accessible and comprehensive overview of the maritime shipping law.

He concentrated on the principles of the common law, and used line data diagrams, case studies, sample problem questions, annotated appendices and other methods to duly support the material provided in this volume. The book will be very useful for the students who are studying the present topic as a part of LLB/LLM course.

They may use it as a easily accessible and thorough overview of the subject prepared for the students and concentrated on the principles. In short, the volume presents all major topics. Highly recommended to both practicing and future lawyers.