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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 ...
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The containers came in two sizes — 8 feet (2.4 m) high x 8 feet (2.4 m) wide x 20 feet (6.1 m) long (2.4 m x 2.4 m x 6 m) or 8 x 8 x 40 feet (12 m) long. The term " Twenty-foot equivalent unit " or TEU derived from this size - a TEU was a space aboard a ship that was 8 feet (2.4 m) wide by 8 feet (2.4 m) high by 20 feet (6.1 m) long.
A freight claim or cargo claim is a legal demand by a shipper or consignee against a carrier in respect of damage to a shipment, or loss thereof. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Typically, the claimant will seek damages (financial compensation for loss), but other remedies include " specific performance ", where the cargo-owner seeks delivery of the goods as ...
Hague Rules/Hague–Visby Rules; International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading (1924)/ First Protocol (1968)/ Second Protocol (1979) Drafted: 25 August 1924/23 February 1968/21 December 1979: Effective: 2 June 1931/23 June 1977/24 February 1982: Condition: After consultations/
"The FTC's rule will end these tricks and traps, saving Americans time and money. Nobody should be stuck paying for a service they no longer want." FTC commissioners passed the final rule on a 3-2 ...
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. The Rules primarily address the legal relationship between carriers and ...
Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor’s long fight to preserve the ...