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.
Pollution at Sea: Law and Liability
1st Edition
Edited
By Baris Soyer, Andrew Tettenborn
October 14, 2024
A sharp, informed and thoroughly practical guide to contemporary and developing issues relating to sea pollution, prepared by leading academics and practitioners with everyday hands-on experience. Pollution at Sea focuses on a number of the vital private law issues – compensation, insurance, ...
The Carriage Of Goods By Sea Under The Rotterdam Rules
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhidian Thomas
October 14, 2024
This book is based on papers presented at the Sixth International Colloquium organised by the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University, in September 2009. The sixteen contributions have been written by a team of international experts who collectively submit the newly ...
The Maritime Labour Convention 2006: International Labour Law Redefined
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Lavelle
October 14, 2024
With the Maritime Labour Convention now in force (as of August 2013), the shipping industry is faced with a new international convention that has comprehensive implications across all sectors. This vital text provides timely analysis and thought-provoking essays regarding the Convention’...
Responsibility and Accountability in Maritime Law: Criminalisation of the Ship’s Master
1st Edition
By Simon Daniels
August 28, 2024
The criminalisation of seafarers has been observed as a growing phenomenon for more than forty years, presenting a picture of increasing liability upon the Master even though their responsibilities remain essentially unchanged in generations of maritime law. Because of the demand by society to find...
Commercial and Maritime Law in China and Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Shengnan Jia, Lijun Liz Zhao
August 26, 2024
Both China and Europe have a long tradition of commercial and maritime law; and this new book examining various topics from their particular perspectives is both timely and important. It links the vital component of maritime law with commercial law, financial law and trade policy. The book has ...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...