The second edition of this short, but authoritative, work contains many improvements on the first edition. For a start, £50 for a hardback, while still not cheap, is considerably better value for money than £75 for a paperback. The layout of the book has also been considerably improved. The first edition set out the UNCTAD article-by-article commentary and appended the authors’ comments to the end of the relevant section of that commentary. The authors’ commentary, again on an article-by-article basis, is now set out in full in the main body of the text, with the UNCTAD commentary being one of several appendices, including the full texts of the Hague Rules, the Hague-Visby Rules and the U.S. Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1936, together with an up-to-date list of Contracting States to the Hamburg Rules. Perhaps the most useful innovations are to be found in the final appendices. Appendix 7 is a schedule cross-referencing the Hague, Hague-Visby and Hamburg Rules, summarizing and highlighting the difference between the regimes. Appendix 8 applies a similar process to the major English and Australian authorities on the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules.