Singh, Nagendra Keywords: Carriage of goods by sea | Public international law | Mots clefs: Transport maritime | Droit international public | ABSTRACT Nagendra Singh writes that the principles of the law of merchant shipping partly derive from the domestic law of the States participating in maritime trade, and partly from multilateral treaties and multilateral conventions. First, the author presents the general principles of international law governing merchant shipping. In the second part on public international law …

González Lapeyre, Edison Keywords: Ports | Régime juridique | Transport maritime | Connaissements | Affrètement | Responsabilité | Mots clefs: Ports | Legal regime | Carriage of goods by sea | Bills of lading | Affreightment | Accountability | ABSTRACT Edison Gonzalez Lapeyre, Former Professor at the University of Uruguay, devotes his course to maritime transport and the port regime. Starting from the observation of the tremendous quantitative increase in trade following globalization and the development of the use of containers, whic…