Maritime Shipping in UK Law
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Green Shipping: Governing Sustainable Maritime Transport
Maritime shipping is integral to the global economy. Over 80 per cent of traded goods travel by ship. While states and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have stalled in the regulation o...
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Unsatisfactory Implication - a Case for Revision. Dalmare SpA v Union Maritime Ltd and Valor Shipping Ltd [2012] EWHC 3537 (Comm)
Until the decision in Air Transworld1 it had been trite law that unequivocal language was necessary in order to exclude from a contract a term implied by a statute. The recent judgement in The Unio...
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Global Collective Bargaining on Flag of Convenience Shipping
The most significant case of transnational union bargaining co‐ordination in existence is in the maritime shipping industry. A global union association, the International Transport Workers’ Federat...... ... Shipping Nathan Lillie Abstract The most significant case of transnational union bargaining co-ordination in e xistence is in the maritime shipping industry. A g lobal union association, the International Transport W orkers’ Feder ation (ITF), and a global employers’ f ederation, the ... ...
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‘Diving for dope’: Identity in submarine drug policing at the ‘maritime gateway to Europe’
This article offers an ethnographic account of everyday identity (re)configuration in submarine policing by the Dutch Customs Diving Team (CDT) officers of illegal underwater drug trafficking in th...... ... a superior policing Self through an inferior policed Other for which (discriminating) stigmas that exist about drug trafficking, maritime shipping and (counter-narcotics) policing are (unwillingly) used and amplified. Keywords Submarine policing, Port of Rotterdam, Customs Diving Team, drug ... ...
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Chip Off the Old Block: Acknowledging the Obstacles to Widespread Adoption of Blockchain Bills of Lading
The bill of lading has been a staple of the maritime shipping industry for centuries. Its evolution to facilitate three core functions was slow and arduous, with little change in the bill of lading...... ... ABSTRACT ... The bill of lading has been a staple of the maritime shipping industry for centuries. Its evolution to facilitate three core ... ...
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BOOK REVIEWS
Book reviewed: Capitalist Diversity and Change: Recombinant Governance and Institutional Entrepreneurs by Colin Crouch. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, 184 pp., ISBN 0 19 928647 7, £50.00. ...... ... Worker s — Collective Bargaining and Regulatory P olitics in Maritime Shipping by Nathan Lillie. R outledge, New York and London, 2006, vii + ... ...
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Global patterns of maritime piracy, 2000–09
This article introduces the Maritime Piracy Data (MPD), a dataset dedicated to understanding the nature, dynamics, and causes of contemporary piracy and armed robbery against ships. Data on maritim...... ... Entries include country-level information regarding the maritime sector including coastal shipping traffic, coastline length, seaports, distances to major sea lane chokepoints, and merchant marine size. The article describes the main features of ... ...
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Who governs Norwegian maritime security? Public facilitation of private security in a fragmented security environment
This article analyses the Norwegian governance of maritime security that surrounds the accommodation of armed private security provision on board Norwegian-registered ships, and questions the role ...... ... This article contends that although maritime governance inhabits peculiarities related to both the shipping industry’s global competitive character and the maritime domain’s geographical distance from public authorities, the Norwegian governance of ... ...
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Colonial and Federal Admiralty Jurisdiction
Notwithstanding the inclusion of “Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction” within the constitutional grant of federal judicial power, current Admiralty jurisdiction in Australia is based solely on a ni...... ... YING* Notwithstanding the inclusion of "Admiralty and maritime juris- diction" within the constitutional grant of federal ... deference to Imperial control over international shipping (although lately there have been indications of greater ... ...
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Unicorn among the Cedars: On the Possibility of Effective ‘Smart
Regulation’ of the Globalized Shipping Industry
This article considers the prospects for effective regulation of emerging globalized industries by examining the effectiveness of the ‘smart regulation’ approach ass...... ... The strong overall regulatory framework, the political will to avoid damaging maritime accidents, and the well-developed system of port state control, all suggest that the shipping industry may be taken as a test case for the ... ...
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