Call for U.S. action on Rotterdam Rules

Industry Organizations

Monday, February 18, 2013

The National Industrial Transportation League, World Shipping Council, and Maritime Law Association of the United States are calling on the State Department to review and approve the so-called Rotterdam Rules, an international maritime cargo liability convention signed by nearly two dozen countries back in 2009. "We are quite concerned that the delay of more than three years after the United States signed the treaty is undermining international support for the treaty and ...

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