Legal Research On The Period Of Carrier’s Responsibility In Shipping Of The Contemporary Era

The Rotterdam rules was brought into sharp focus since its introduction.Up to now,only three countries pass the convention,many other countries are still in wait-and-see stage.The research on the Rotterdam rules has never stopped in our country,and in March 2015,the Maritime Law Association of China has also set up an investigation team to analyze the pros and cons of China’s entry into the Rotterdam rules,the main purpose is to study the Rotterdam rules,and they analyze the advantages and disadvantages of China’s accession to the "Rotterdam rules" with the research mode and working method of think tanks.One of the most important aspects of the Rotterdam rules is the carrier’s responsibility,and one of the significant features is increasing the responsibility of the carriers.Among them,the change of the period of carrier’s responsibility especially reflects the characteristics of aggravating the responsibility of the carrier.However,there are few studies on the terms of the period of carrier’s responsibility during the convention,many scholars regard it as a small part of the study of the carrier’s responsibility and mention them with few words briefly.Therefore,I choose the provisions of the convention on the period of carrier’s responsibility as the focus of the study,and this provisions and other provisions of the convention will be combined and then analyzed,and compare to the other conventions and the relevant provisions of the national law.At the same time,I will put forward some suggestions to the maritime law of our country in accordance with the provisions of the maritime law.The main content of the first chapter is to introduce the development process during the period of carrier’s responsibility.This chapter begins with a brief reference to the provisions of period of carrier’s responsibility of the Hague rules and the Hamburg Rules,and analyze its legislative background and specific provisions simply.Secondly,this chapter mainly analyzes the origin and the problems during the formulation of the period of carrier’s responsibility in the Rotterdam rules.Through the analysis of the formulation process of the carrier’s responsibility,we can deepen the understanding of why the rules were formulated in the convention.The second chapter concretely analyzes the regulations of carrier’s responsibility period.In this chapter,there are five problems.I have a comprehensive discussion of the period of responsibility mainly through the legal analysis,the main application of the period of responsibility,comparison between the period of responsibility and other similar periods,damages form during the period of responsibility and specific analysis of the third paragraph in the provisions.The third chapter is to compare the content of different laws,I choose provisions on the period of carrier’s responsibility in the laws of the USA,Germany and Sweden,and analyze them briefly,then simply analyze each country’s attitude towards the Rotterdam rules from the aspect of responsibility periods.The content of the fourth chapter is mainly about the specific content of the current maritime law in our country.China’s "maritime law" has been developed for more than ten years.The advanced terms at that time now need some amendments to keep up with the development of today’s shipping.Therefore,in this chapter,I make a brief analysis of the term of responsibility periods in Maritime Law,and put forward corresponding suggestions in according to provisions of the Rotterdam rules.