The Obligations of the Carrier Regarding the Cargo The Hague-Visby R
This book addresses the legal and contractual obligations of sea carriers regarding due care for the cargo under a contract of carriage. While the general framework employed is the leading international liability regime, the Hague-Visby Rules, the discuss
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The Obligations of the Carrier Regarding the Cargo The Hague-Visby Rules
The Obligations of the Carrier Regarding the Cargo
Ilian Djadjev
The Obligations of the Carrier Regarding the Cargo The Hague-Visby Rules
Ilian Djadjev Private International Law University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-319-62439-6 ISBN 978-3-319-62440-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-62440-2
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To my grandfather Iliya Guev (1926 – 2015) who has always inspired me
Preface
This book addresses the legal and contractual obligations of sea carriers relating to the care for the cargo under a contract of carriage. While the general framework employed is the leading international liability regime on the carriage of goods by sea—the Hague-Visby Rules—the discussions in each chapter also account for the possible future adoption of a new regime, the Rotterdam Rules, with the latter being adequately referred to in each of the chapters. The subject matter is related to the standard for the duty of care for the goods as codified in the Hague-Visby Rules, but the work touches also upon a wide range of related topics found both in law and in practice and provides valuable commercial, technical and historical links as well as various solutions that have been found at the national and international levels to address the challenges arising in this specialized area of law. The book is divided into six chapters, which gradually reveal the complexity of the topic. Chapter 1 provides a thorough introduction to the two main tran
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