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27 relations: Act of God, Affreightment, Bill of lading, British Protectorate, Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971, Carriage of Goods By Sea Act 1992, Common law, Containerization, Due diligence, East Timor, Fire, Germany, Hague Rules, Hamburg Rules, Inequality of bargaining power, Intermodal container, Israel, League of Nations mandate, Macau, Maritime transport, Multimodal transport, Rotterdam Rules, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seaworthiness (law), Special drawing rights, Tanzania, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Act of God
In legal usage throughout the English-speaking world, an act of God is a natural hazard outside human control, such as an earthquake or tsunami, for which no person can be held responsible.
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Affreightment
Affreightment (from freight) is a legal term used in shipping.
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Bill of lading
A bill of lading (sometimes abbreviated as B/L or BoL) is a document issued by a carrier (or their agent) to acknowledge receipt of cargo for shipment.
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British Protectorate
British Protectorates were territories in which the British Crown exercised sovereign jurisdiction.
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Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971
The Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament.
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Carriage of Goods By Sea Act 1992
The Carriage of Goods By Sea Act 1992 is a UK Statute that repeals the Bills of Lading Act 1855 and makes new provisions.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Containerization
Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers).
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Due diligence
Due diligence is an investigation of a business or person prior to signing a contract, or an act with a certain standard of care.
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East Timor
East Timor or Timor-Leste (Tetum: Timór Lorosa'e), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (República Democrática de Timor-Leste, Repúblika Demokrátika Timór-Leste), is a sovereign state in Maritime Southeast Asia.
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Fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Hague Rules
The Hague Rules of 1924 (formally the "International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading, and Protocol of Signature") is an international convention to impose minimum standards upon commercial carriers of goods by sea.
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Hamburg Rules
The Hamburg Rules are a set of rules governing the international shipment of goods, resulting from the United Nations International Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea adopted in Hamburg on 31 March 1978.
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Inequality of bargaining power
In law, economics and the social sciences, inequality of bargaining power is where one party to a "bargain", contract or agreement, has more and better alternatives than the other party.
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Intermodal container
An intermodal container is a large standardized shipping container, designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – from ship to rail to truck – without unloading and reloading their cargo.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League of Nations.
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Macau
Macau, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Maritime transport
Maritime transport is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) by water.
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Multimodal transport
Multimodal transport (also known as combined transport) is the transportation of goods under a single contract, but performed with at least two different means of transport; the carrier is liable (in a legal sense) for the entire carriage, even though it is performed by several different modes of transport (by rail, sea and road, for example).
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Rotterdam Rules
The "Rotterdam Rules" (formally, the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea) is a treaty proposing new international rules to revise the legal framework for maritime affreightment and carriage of goods by sea.
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Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis, also known as the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is an island country in the West Indies.
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Seaworthiness (law)
Seaworthiness is a concept that runs through maritime law in at least four contractual relationships.
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Special drawing rights
Special drawing rights (ISO 4217 currency code XDR, also abbreviated SDR) are supplementary foreign-exchange reserve assets defined and maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague–Visby_Rules
