Module description:
Carriage of Goods by Sea covers the law on charterparties and bills of lading, with special emphasis on the areas which most frequently result to shipowner-trade disputes at the same time giving students a thorough knowledge of the principles and law of Carriage of Goods by Sea; to closely analyse the most important cases (from the reported litigation); to obtain the knowledge and skills required to use the relevant law in practice.
The areas to be covered are:
- The markets and the contracts formed
- Charterparties fixing
- Law governing charterparties
- Vessel seaworthiness
- Delivery and re-delivery of a chartered vessel
- The voyage of a vessel
- Loading and unloading (delay, laytime, demurrage, clauses in voyage charterparties)
- Time-charters (hire payment, withdrawal and deduction of hire)
- Bill of lading, charterparty and the contract of carriage
- Hague-Visby Rules application
- Carrier's duties (related to goods, vessel/voyage, documents) under the Hague-Visby Rules
- Goods delivery
- Entitlement to sue in contract
- Hague-Visby Rules liabilities, limits and exceptions
- UNCITRAL Rotterdam on the Instrument on Carriage of Goods by Sea