Marine cargo claims

Volume 1. Application of the rules generally 

• Application of the rules to charterparties 
• Interpretation and construction of the rules 
• Interpretation of bills of lading and superseding clauses 
• Fundamental breach, deviation, quasi-deviation, and rupture of the contract 
• The burden and order of proof 
• Sale of goods: the passing of title and risk : a resume 
• Who may claim or sue? 
• Proving the contract or tort 
• Whom to sue 
• Loss while in the charge of the carrier 
• Loss or damage to cargo 
• Measure of damages 
• The cause of the loss or damage 
• Due diligence to make the vessel seaworthy 
• Error in navigation or management 
• Fire 
• Peril of the sea and similar exceptions 
• Acts and fault of the shipper 
• Inherent vice and hidden defects of the goods 
• Insufficiency of packing 
• Latent defects of the ship 
• Art. 4(2)(q): any other cause without fault 
• Load properly and carefully 
• Stow properly and carefully 
• Properly carry, keep and care for cargo 
• Discharge properly and carefully 
• Arbitration clauses 
• Collision and loss to cargo 
• Containers 
• Deck carriage 

Volume 2. Delay for suit 

• Responsibility of freight forwarders 
• Cargo owners' obligations in general average 
• Geographic deviation 
• The himalaya clause: heresy or genius? 
• Jurisdiction clauses: forum non conveniens 
• Letters of indemnity and of guarantee 
• Limitation, non-responsibility and disclaimer clauses 
• Notice of loss 
• Package or kilo limitation 
• Set-off, recoupment, 'compensation' and counterclaim 
• Sweat damage and ventilation 
• Through and combined carriage and transhipment 
• Waybills 
• Products liability 
• National Summaries Inventory 2007 
• Appendix A. International conventions 
• Appendix B. United States law 
• Appendix C. United Kingdom law 
• Appendix D. French law 
• Appendix E. Canadian law 
• Appendix F. Beaufort wind scale