Rotterdam Rules

Chairman

Tomotaka Fujita
Professor of Law, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Zipcode: 113-0033.
Website: http://www.tfujita.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Tel: +61 2 8281 4477
Fax: +61 2 8281 4567
Email: tfujita@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Members

Jose' Tomas Guzman
Lawyer, Professor of Maritime & Insurance Law, Director of Chilean Maritime Law Association,
Hendaya 60, Of. 503. Las Condes 7550188 Santiago, Chile
Tel: +56 2 3315860/61
Fax: +56 2 3315135
Email:jtomasguzman@jtguzmanycia.cl

Stuart Beare
24, Ripplevale Grove, London N1 1HU, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 20 7609.0766
Email: stuart.beare@btinternet.com

Gertjan Van Der Ziel
Professor Emeritus, Erasmus University, Former President of the Netherlands Maritime Law Association,
Doornstraat 23, 3151 VA Hoek van Holland, Netherlands.
Tel: +174 384 997
Fax: +174 387 146
Email:vanderziel@xs4all.nl

Philippe Delebecque
Professeur à l’Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne 4,
rue de la Paix, 75002 Paris
Tel: +33 1 42 60 35 60
Fax: +33 1 42 60 35 76
Email: ph-delebecque@wanadoo.fr

Hannu Honka
Åbo Akademi, Department of Law, Gezeliusgatan 2,
FI-20500 Åbo.
Tel: +358 2 215 4129
Fax: +358 2 215 4699
Email: hannu.honka@abo.fi

Kofi MBIAH
Email: kmbiahami@hotmail.com

Barry Oland
Barrister and Solicitor, Past President of the Canadian Maritime LawAssociation,
Barrister & Solicitor, P.O.Box 11547, 2020 Vancouver Centre,
650West Georgia Street, Vancouver,
B.C. V6B 4N7, Canada.
Tel: +604 683 9621
Fax: +604 669 4556
Email: shiplaw@aboland.com

TEXT AND RESOLUTION

CORRECTION OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT

THE TRAVAUX PREPARATOIRES OF THE ROTTERDAM RULES

UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea  

status of the rotterdam rules:
signature and ratification

Please click here for more information: http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XI-D-8&chapter=11&lang=en

TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

• News on the Rotterdam Rules: Recommendation by Danish Maritime Law Committee and Norwegian Maritime Law Commission

Documents Produced

• Questions and Answers on The Rotterdam Rules (Ver. Oct 10, 2012)
  
  
  

Documents of Interest

Athens Conference (2008)

• Resolution adopted by the 39th CMI Conference on the UNCITRAL Draft Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea

Buenos Aired Colloquium (2010)

• Rotterdam Rules - Shipper's Obligations and Liability - CMI 2010 - José Vicente Guzmán
• Reglas de Rotterdam - Obligaciones y Responsabilidad del Cargador - José Vicente Guzman  
• Summary Johanne Gauthier - Buenos Aires 2010.doc
• Summary Johanne Gauthier - Annex 1 - english.pdf
• Summary Johanne Gauthier - Annex 2 - spanish.pdf
• Rotterdam Rules Some controversies paper - S.Beare
• The Need for Change - Paper - S.Beare
• Limitation of Liability in the Rotterdam Rules - Alberto Cappagli.pdf
• The Coverage of the Rotterdam Rules (BA 2010) - T.Fujita
• Obligaciones y responsabilidad del porteador - Manuel Alba Fernandez
• Rotterdam Rules General Presentation - Kate Lannan.pdf

Beijing Conference (2012)

• Paper of Jose Vicente Guzman
• Paper of Kofi Mbiah
• Paper of Prof. Si Yuzho and Dr. Zhang Jinlei
• Paper of Alexander von Ziegler
• Paper of Zhang Yongjian
• Panel 3: Hypothetical Problems Treated Under the Rules
• Panel 4: Questions and Answers

• Report of the fifty-first session of the Working Party on Intermodal Transport and Logistics of the UN Economic and Social Council: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/wp24/wp24-reports/documents/ECE-TRANS-WP24-123e.pdf
• European Parliament - Resolution Rotterdam Rules.txt
• View of the European Shippers' Council on the Convention on Contracts for the International Carrying (sic) of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sean also known as the "Rotterdam Rules", March 2009:http://www.uncitral.org/pdf/english/texts/transport/rotterdam_rules/ESC_PositionPaper_March2009.pdf
• Paper of the Working Group on Sea Transport of FIATA being Annex II to FIATA’s document MTI/507 of 26 March 2009  
• Position Paper of the European Association for Forwarding Transport Logistic and Customs Services-CLECAT dated 11 May 2009.
• Comparative analysis of the Hague-Visby Rules, the Hamburg Rules and the Rotterdam Rules.pdf

• The Rotterdam Rules – An attempt to clarify certain concerns that have emerged, by Francesco Berlingieri, Philippe Delebecque, Tomotaka Fujita, Rafael Illescas, Michael Sturley, Gertjan van der Ziel, Alexander von Ziegler and Stefano Zunarelli.
• Particular concerns - Rotterdam Rules.pdf
• Las Reglas de Rotterdam - Una respuesta latinoamericana a la Declaración de Montevideo 2.pdf
• The Rotterdam Rules - A Latin-American Response to the Declaration of Montevideo 2.pdf 
• Declaracion de Montevideo (original)
• Montevideo Declaration (English translation) - link: http://www.pysdens.com/press_show.asp?id=63&menu=3
• Montevideo Declaration: The Facts
• Declaracion de Montevideo: Los Hechos
• The Rotterdam Rules - A Latin-American Response to the Declaration of Montevideo
• Las Reglas de Rotterdam - Una respuesta latinoamericana a la Declaración de Montevideo.pdf 
• The proposed Rotterdam Rules and the objections contained in the "Declaration Montevideo" - Antonio Zuidwijk
• Francesco Berlingieri, "An Analysis of Two Recent Commentaries of The Rotterdam Rules"
• BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE ROTTERDAM RULES.pdf