Part One: General introduction

1. Introduction

2. Implied obligations in a contract of affreightment

Part Two: Charterparties

3. The voyage charterparty

4. The time charterparty

Part Three

5. Bills of lading and their functions

6. Application of the Hague/Visby Rules

7. Bills of lading - the Hamburg Rules

8. Bills of lading - the Rotterdam Rules

9. Bills of lading issued under charterparties

10. Problems of combined transport

Part Four: Common aspects of contracts of affreightment

11. Exceptions

12. Limitation of liability

13. Freight

14. Shipowners' liens

Part Five: Dispute settlement

15. Dispute settlement

16. Breach of contract

Appendix 1: Bills of Lading Act 1855

Appendix 2: International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading, 1924 (The Hague Rules)

Appendix 3: Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971

Appendix 4: Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992

Appendix 5: United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978 (The Hamburg Rules)

Appendix 6: United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, 2009 (The Rotterdam Rules)

Appendix 7: CMI Uniform Rules for Sea Waybills

Appendix 8: CMI Rules for Electronic Bills of Lading

Appendix 9: Barecon 2001 Charter

Appendix 10: Gencon 94 Charter

Appendix 11: Shellvoy 6 Charter

Appendix 12: Baltime 1939 Charter (as revised 2001)

Appendix 13: New York Produce Exchange (NYPE 46) Charter

Appendix 14: New York Produce Exchange (NYPE 93) Charter

Appendix 15: Shelltime 4 Charter (as amended 2003)

Appendix 16: Conlinebill 1978

Appendix 17: Congenbill 2000

Appendix 18: Congenbill

Appendix 19: Maersk Line bill

Appendix 20: GCBS Short Form Bill

Appendix 21: Combiconbill

Appendix 22: Maersk Line Waybill