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Carriage of the Package by Sea; COGSA; shipping; cargo handling; shipowner liability; Hamburg Rules; Visby Amendments
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Carriage Of The Package By Sea: An Analysis Of Laws Governing Shipowner Liability For Cargo Damange, Amy M. Stone
Carriage Of The Package By Sea: An Analysis Of Laws Governing Shipowner Liability For Cargo Damange, Amy M. Stone
Theses and Major Papers
This thesis traces the development of laws governing limitation of shipowner liability to cargo owners from the Harter Act to the Hague Rules and the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA). The inadequacy of the $500 per package limitation of liability as protection to shippers is illustrated through the use of case studies by comparing the application of this provision to break-bulk shipments when COGSA was first passed to its application today in the age of containerization. The efforts of the major maritime nations to revise the Hague Rules/COGSA system in the Visby Amendments are examined and compared to …