Sea transportation

A lot of regulation is prevailing in the fields of sea transportation. The local Nordic legislation is in many ways identical. National legislation is often based on international conventions, and some agreements issued by Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) is also quite common. Below we have gathered the most common legislation, conventions and agreements prevailing in the field of sea transportation.

By a diplomatic convention in 1978 the Hamburg-rules were issued. They are a bit more strict towards the shipowners' liability and is intentionally meant to be the successor of Hague-Visbye Rules but is until now only ratified by a limited number of nations.

Hamburg Rules (see Admiralty Law's pages at admiraltylaw.com/statutes/hamburg.html);