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Admiralty and maritime treaties and conventions

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Australian Treaties Library (ScalePlus)
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Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide - International conventions
CMI - Jurisprudence on interpretation of maritime conventions
ENTRI - Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators
International Maritime Organization (IMO) conventions
United Nations - Division of oceans and the law of the sea

Individual maritime conventions (with link to full text where available)

Transport of goods

International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading, and Protocol for Signature ("Hague Rules'), 1924 [CMI - Brussels]

Protocol (SDR Protocol) amending the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading of 25 August 1924 (The Hague Rules), as amended by the Protocol of 23 February 1968 (Visby Rules)

Draft Convention on Combined Transport ('Tokyo Rules'), 1969 [CMI]

United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea ('Hamburg Rules'), 1978 [UNCITRAL]

United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods, 1980 [UNCITRAL]

Uniform Rules for Electronic Bills of Lading, 1990 [CMI]

Uniform Rules for Sea Waybills, 1990 [CMI]

United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade, 1991 [UNCITRAL]

Voyage Charterparty Laytime Internpretation Rules ('VoyLayRules 93'), 1993 [CMI, BIMCO, FONASBA, INTERCARGO]

Carriage of passengers and luggage

International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to the Carriage of Passengers by Sea (with Protocol for Signature), 1961 [CMI - Brussels]

International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Carriage of Passengers' Kuggage by Sea, 1967 [CMI - Brussels]

Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage by Sea, 1974 [CMI - IMO]

Protocol to the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage by Sea ('SDR Protocol'), 1976 [IMO]

Protocol to Amend the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage by Sea, 1990 [IMO]

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