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The Law of International Trade Whether by virtue of owning the ship or operating the ship, as a carrier, you take on an enormous amount of responsibility. Whether you like it or not, your duties are not just those expressly set out in your charter-parties and your bill of lading. The jurisdictions in which you operate or subject your contract to also impose various obligations on you by implication and by statue. Some of these laws may actually take away the protections you have given yourself, under your contract of affreightment. This often results in the carrier being exposed to liabilities well beyond what he may have envisioned when he signed off on the charter-party or the bill of lading. Given this, knowledge of what are the commonly implied duties of a carrier under common law and conventions such as the Hague, Hague-Visby rules and to a lesser extent, the Marine...

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