Rotterdam Rules: On-line Resources

2008 - United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea - the "Rotterdam Rules"

 

Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport Press Release: Arab League Workshop Recommends that Arab League States sign the Rotterdam Rules

ICS, ECSA, BIMCO and WSC Press Release (23.09.2009): Wide support by States at signing ceremony in Rotterdam

Papers presented at the Colloquium of the Rotterdam Rules, held on 21 September 2009

Photographs of the sixteen original signatory States of the Rotterdam Rules

More photographs from the Rotterdam Signing Ceremony and related events

A Comparative Analysis of the Hague-Visby, Hamburg and Rotterdam Rules

Endorsement by Comité Maritime International

Endorsement by National Industrial Transportation League

ICC Statement on Rotterdam Rules

US Shippers and Carriers Welcome ICC Statement on Rotterdam Rules

ICS Position Paper in support of Rotterdam Rules -- Press Release

UNCITRAL response to the International Road Transport Union (IRU) - 2009 and 2006

Position paper of IRU reiterating 2006 concerns

Clarification by National Experts of concerns raised by UNECE, ESC, FIATA Working Group on Sea Transport, and CLECAT

Working Party on Intermodal Transport and Logistics of the Inland Transport Committee of UNECE (paras. 36-43)

Position Paper of FIATA Working Group on Sea Transport

CLECAT Position Paper

View of the European Shippers' Council on Rotterdam Rules

Response of the US Shippers to the European view -- Press Release

ECSA backs Rotterdam Rules

ABA endorses the Rotterdam Rules

Editor's Letter "Rotterdam Rules", Journal of Commerce, 6 July 2009 / Reprinted with permission of The Journal of Commerce

Audio Podcast on Rotterdam Rules [in English] / by Coracle Online [12/06/2009]

Audio Podcast on Rotterdam Rule. Coracle meet Kate Lannan [in English] / by Coracle Online [16/10/2009]

A Win-Win Proposition

Study by Prof. Ricardo Sandoval (Chile) on the Rotterdam Rules / Published in "Assessment of 30 years of maritime law and 20 years of the Hamburg Rules". Workshop held in Valparaiso, Chili on 7 November 2008. Publilibro, Santiago, 2008.

Judge in NZ Court of Appeal case takes note of Rotterdam Rules ([2009] NZCA 135, para. 64)

 

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