CONTAINER REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON SHIPPING LAW

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Assistance Professor, Department of Private and Islamic Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran

Abstract

From the 1960s, the shipping industry experienced a tremendous change, that due to the different conditions than the past known as the “container revolution”. Container while brought abundant achievements such as increasing speed, safety and security of transportation and reduced shipping created law issues that are still controversial. Container's Legal Nature(whether determining the amount of responsibility for shipping, is a "package" or not), explanation of various relationships arising from issuance of several bills of lading (groupage BLs and house BLs) for one container as well as container position contracts(SLOT), determining the liable person in the case of damages to the cargo (while the sealed container is provided to the Carter), and  liability for incorrect stowage of cargo in the container or stowage of container on the deck is the most important issues that emerged following the container revolution in shipping law and has been analyzed in this article.

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Law Quarterly
Volume 51, Issue 1
April 2021
Pages 39-55

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