The Rotterdam Rules: UN Convention on Contracts for International Carriage Good Wholly Partly Sea

This work provides comprehensive commentary on the new UN convention governing how goods are conveyed by sea, in force from September 2009. It supplies reliable guidance, being written by three of the architects of the convention who were intimately involved in its drafting and negotiation. * Explains the intended meaning of all of the principal provisions * Follows the organisation of the convention for easy reference * Includes many worked examples # hypothetical cases with explanations of how they would be resolved under the new convention * Places the convention in its historical and commercial contexts so its practical impact is clear