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Ministry of Maritime Affairs, being the Maritime Administration of Pakistan ensures the implementation of this statutory obligation through its departments such as the Mercantile Marine Department, the Government Shipping Office., [5] and autonomous bodies like Karachi Port Trust, Port Qasim Authority, Gwadur Port Authority, Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, etc.
The Hague Rules of 1924 effectively codified, albeit in a diluted form, the English common law rules to protect the cargo owner against exploitation by the carrier. Nearly 50 years later, the Hague-Visby "update" made few changes, so that the newer Rules still applied only to "tackle to tackle" carriage (i.e. carriage by sea) and the container ...
Mare Liberum (1609) by Hugo Grotius is one of the earliest works on law of the sea. Law of the sea (or ocean law) is a body of international law governing the rights and duties of states in maritime environments. [1] It concerns matters such as navigational rights, sea mineral claims, and coastal waters jurisdiction.
The Book of the Consulate of the Sea (Catalan: Llibre del Consolat de Mar, lit. 'Book of the Consulate of Sea') is a compendium of maritime law that governed trade in the Mediterranean for centuries. Of Valencian origin, it was translated into many languages and served as the basis for current international maritime law.
This category is for articles on admiralty law or maritime law, a body of both domestic law governing maritime activities, and private international law governing the relationships between private entities which operate vessels on the oceans.
The significance of UNCLOS stems from the fact that it systemizes and codifies the standards and principles of international maritime law, which are based on centuries of maritime experience and are expressed to a great extent in the United Nations Charter and current international maritime law norms, such as the Geneva Conventions of 1958.
The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (reporting name: PMSA) (Urdu: پاکستان بحری سلامتی ایجنسی) is a branch of the Pakistan Navy. [4] It is a Navy-managed and Navy-controlled Marine law enforcement agency whose mission is to provide protection to Pakistan's maritime interests and enforcement of maritime law with jurisdiction over the domestic and international waters of ...
Shipping was one of the earliest channels of commerce, and rules for resolving maritime trade disputes were developed early. An ancient example was the Rhodian law (Nomos Rhodion Nautikos), of which no extensive written specimen has survived, but which is alluded to in other legal texts (Roman and Byzantine legal codes), and later the customs of the Consulate of the Sea and the Hanseatic League.