The international carriage of goods by sea has been regulated by international conventions.
These include the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating
to Bills of Lading (Hague Rules) the Protocol to Amend the International Convention for the
Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading (Visby Rules) and the UN
Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea. They were adopted in 1924 1968 and 1978
respectively and the transport industry's commercial needs have since substantially changed.
Furthermore the advent of subsequent regimes has resulted in the uniformity in the carriage of
goods by sea once provided by the Hague Rules being lost. In order to update and modernize
existing regimes the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly
or Partly by Sea (Rotterdam Rules) was adopted on December 11 2008 by the UN General Assembly
and opened for signature on September 23 2009. Since then drafters of the Rotterdam Rules
academics and practitioners have been publicizing discussing and evaluating the Rules. This
book is an effort to further explore those same goals.of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills
of Lading (Hague Rules) the Protocol to Amend the International Convention for the Unification
of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading (Visby Rules) and the UN Convention on the
Carriage of Goods by Sea. They were adopted in 1924 1968 and 1978 respectively and the
transport industry's commercial needs have since substantially changed. Furthermore the advent
of subsequent regimes has resulted in the uniformity in the carriage of goods by sea once
provided by the Hague Rules being lost. In order to update and modernize existing regimes the
UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea
(Rotterdam Rules) was adopted on December 11 2008 by the UN General Assembly and opened for
signature on September 23 2009. Since then drafters of the Rotterda
