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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.
Law of the sea should be distinguished from maritime law, which concerns maritime issues and disputes among private parties, such as individuals, international organizations, or corporations. However, the International Maritime Organisation, a UN agency that plays a major role in implementing law of the sea, also helps to develop, codify, and ...
International Convention on Load Lines; International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation; International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage; International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties
Admiralty law or maritime law is a body of law that governs nautical issues and private maritime disputes. Admiralty law consists of both domestic law on maritime activities, and private international law governing the relationships between private parties operating or using ocean-going ships.
This is a list of maritime boundary treaties. Maritime boundary treaties are treaties that establish a specified ocean or sea boundary between two or more countries or territories. These are also called maritime boundary agreements , maritime delimitation treaties , or maritime delimitation agreements .
The International Maritime Organization (IMO; French: Organisation maritime internationale; Spanish: Organización Marítima Internacional) [1] is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating maritime transport. [2]
Maritime spaces with mixed legal regime, which fall under both the jurisdiction of the coastal State and under the international law: contiguous zone, the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone, and; Maritime spaces that can be used by all States (including land-locked ones) on an equal basis: high seas.
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty which sets out minimum safety standards in the construction, equipment and operation of merchant ships.