| Title | A Preliminary Study on ROC Maritime Law Governing Carriage of Goods |
| Dept | Transportation Operations and Management Division |
| Year | 2014 |
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| Summary | For promoting the international trade and reducing the trade barriers, each country will enact its Maritime Law based on its economic environment to cope with the need of its international transport performed by ocean transportation. Since the enactment of the Hague-Visby Rules 1968 and the Hamburg Rules 1978, there are many newly developed shipping practices in international trades, including the common practice of door-to-door service, electronic transport documents, volume contract, requirements of maritime safety and security, requirements of imposing stricter duties and liabilities on ocean carriers and other performing parties, etc. It is necessary to consider all these development and decide whether or not to modify prevailing regulations in order to cope with the change of shipping practices. The Rotterdam Rules are proposed to provide uniform rules for promote international trades and carriage. The part of “Carriage of goods” in ROC Maritime Law has been enacted based on the Hague-Visby Rules. It also faces certain challenges because the change of international shipping practices. |
| Post date | 2014/07/25 |
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