International Maritime Organization - Legal Instruments

Legal Instruments

Admiralty law
History
  • Ordinamenta et consuetudo maris
  • Amalfian Laws
  • Hanseatic League
Features
  • Freight rate
  • General average
  • Marine insurance
  • Marine salvage
  • Maritime lien
  • Ship mortgage
  • Ship registration
  • Ship transport
  • Shipping
Contracts of affreightment
  • Bill of lading
  • Charter-party
Types of charter-party
  • Bareboat charter
  • Demise charter
  • Time charter
  • Voyage charter
Parties
  • Carrier
  • Charterer
  • Consignee
  • Consignor
  • Shipbroker
  • Ship-manager
  • Ship-owner
  • Shipper
  • Stevedore
Judiciary
  • Admiralty court
  • Vice admiralty court
International conventions
  • Hague-Visby Rules
  • Hamburg Rules
  • Rotterdam Rules
  • UNCLOS
  • Maritime Labour Convention
International organisations
  • International Maritime Organization
  • London Maritime Arbitrators Association

IMO is the source of approximately 60 legal instruments that guide the regulatory development of its member states to improve safety at sea, facilitate trade among seafaring states and protect the maritime environment. The most well known is the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).

IMO regularly enacts regulations, which are broadly enforced by national and local maritime authorities in member countries, such as the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREG). The IMO has also enacted a Port State Control (PSC) authority, allowing domestic maritime authorities such as coast guards to inspect foreign-flag ships calling at ports of the many port states. Memoranda of Understanding (protocols) were signed by some countries unifying Port State Control procedures among the signatories.

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