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Maritime and Transport Law Library

About the Book Series

Presented for expert practitioners and academics alike, Informa Law’s Maritime and Transport Law Library offers an extensive portfolio of cutting-edge specialist titles on the whole spectrum of transport law, including shipping, aviation, rail and road. Our authors come from the premier institutions, law firms and chambers across the world and are among the leaders in their fields.

Recent highlights include the 5th edition of Yvonne Baatz's renowned Maritime Law, and John A C Cartner's new Cartner on the International Law of the Shipmaster: On The New Command at Sea.

42 Series Titles


Merchant Ships' Seaworthiness Law and Practice

Merchant Ships' Seaworthiness: Law and Practice

1st Edition

By Xiankai Zhan, Pengfei Zhang
August 26, 2024

The seaworthiness of merchant ships plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of life and property and the prevention of marine pollution. It deals with the fitness and readiness of a ship and its fundamental ability to sail safely to its destination. The standards of seaworthiness extend to ...

Offshore Floating Production Legal and Commercial Risk Management

Offshore Floating Production: Legal and Commercial Risk Management

1st Edition

Edited By Max Lemanski, Simon Moore, Stuart Beadnall
August 26, 2024

This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to offshore oil and gas floating production. It deals with all legal and commercial risk management issues from initial concept through design, construction, modification, installation, acceptance, production and offloading, including...

The Modern Law of Marine Insurance Volume Five

The Modern Law of Marine Insurance: Volume Five

1st Edition

Edited By D. Rhidian Thomas
August 26, 2024

This fifth volume in the series comprises ten contributions written by an expert team of academics and practitioners. Collectively they analyse and expound many of the contemporary legal issues and debates in the law and practice of marine insurance. The new volume is not to be considered as a "new...

Cartner on the International Law of the Shipmaster On The New Command at Sea

Cartner on the International Law of the Shipmaster: On The New Command at Sea

2nd Edition

By John A. C. Cartner
January 29, 2024

This unique book rethinks and rewrites the previous edition. It categorises simply the nine interactive legal duties of the shipmaster, analysing and relating them to laws and conventions within a single volume. Cartner on the International Law of the Shipmaster contends that command depends on ...

Disruptive Technologies, Climate Change and Shipping

Disruptive Technologies, Climate Change and Shipping

1st Edition

Edited By Barış Soyer, Andrew Tettenborn
January 29, 2024

This book analyses the impact of two vital and contemporary developments on shipping law and practice: disruptive technologies and climate change. It considers the impact of these new technologies, honing in on likely emerging issues and unresolved questions, especially about existing and potential...

Freeports and Free Zones Operations and Regulation in the Global Economy

Freeports and Free Zones: Operations and Regulation in the Global Economy

1st Edition

By Mark Rowbotham
January 29, 2024

This book explains the definition, concepts, practices and procedures of Free Zone operations; how they are created, how they operate, and their benefits to the global and national economy. Readers will be able to understand why Free Zones exist, their role in the development and maintenance of ...

Fresh Produce Shipping Damages and Compensation

Fresh Produce Shipping: Damages and Compensation

1st Edition

By Rex C. Tester
January 29, 2024

This book is an in-depth study of air and ocean goods-in-transit claims. It sets out to guide and assist businesses within the fresh produce industry to successfully implement the best processes and procedures to maximise their recovery efforts against contracted carriers. Fresh Produce Shipping ...

Illegal Charters and Aviation Law

Illegal Charters and Aviation Law

1st Edition

By Alena Soloveva
January 29, 2024

This book concerns the subject of illegal charters. The risks associated with illegal charters are high, and the consequences are dire and different for all the parties involved. Pilots can lose their hard-earned licenses, aircraft owners might not get paid by the insurance companies, businesses ...

Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements in Contracts for the Carriage of Goods by Sea Limitations on Party Autonomy

Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements in Contracts for the Carriage of Goods by Sea: Limitations on Party Autonomy

1st Edition

By Jonatan Echebarria Fernández
January 09, 2023

Jurisdiction and Arbitration Agreements in Contracts for the Carriage of Goods by Sea focuses on party autonomy and its limitations in relation to jurisdiction and arbitration clauses included in contracts for the carriage of goods by sea in case of any cargo dispute. The author takes the ...

Maritime Safety in Europe A Comparative Approach

Maritime Safety in Europe: A Comparative Approach

1st Edition

Edited By Justyna Nawrot, Zuzanna Pepłowska-Dąbrowska
January 09, 2023

The book is concerned with the harmonisation of maritime safety legal systems in Europe. It describes maritime safety legal systems in selected European countries as well as maritime safety issues from the perspective of the International Maritime Organisation, European Union, and European Free ...

Ship Operations New Risks, Liabilities and Technologies in the Maritime Sector

Ship Operations: New Risks, Liabilities and Technologies in the Maritime Sector

1st Edition

Edited By Baris Soyer, Andrew Tettenborn
June 24, 2022

This book covers in one handy volume all the major topics associated with ship operations. Carefully, co-ordinated to ensure breadth, relevance and lack of overlap, the topics covered are addressed by authors are the very top of their profession, whether in legal practice or academia, and are ...

Maritime Law

Maritime Law

5th Edition

Edited By Yvonne Baatz
October 30, 2020

Now in its fifth edition, this authoritative guide covers all of the core aspects of maritime law in one distinct volume. Maritime Law is written by a team of leading academics and practitioners, each expert in their own field. Together, they provide clear, concise and fully up-to-date coverage of ...

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