Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - INFORMATION
The Hague-Visby Rules
The 1968 Visby amendments to the Hague Rules have been in force since 1977 and have been ratified by the following states:
Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Ecuador, Singapore, Egypt, Sri Lanka, France, Sweden, GDR, Switzerland, Lebanon, Netherlands, Spain, Syria, Norway, Tonga, U.K., Finland, Italy.
The Hague-Visby Protocol
The Hague-Visby Protocol which substitutes SDRs for Gold Francs came into force in February 1984. The following states are parties:
Spain, U.K., Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Italy.
The Hamburg Rules
The following states have ratified or acceded to the Hamburg Rules:
Hungary, Egypt, Uganda, Tanzania, Tunisia, Barbados, Morocco, Romania, Chile, Lebanon, Senegal.
Twenty ratifications are required to order to bring the Hamburg Rules into effect. Multi-Modal Transport
Adherence by 30 states is required to bring into force the UNCTAD Convention on Multi-Modal Transport. The Convention has so far been ratified by: Mexico, Chile, Malawi, Senegal.
Limitation of Liability
The 1976 Convention, which came into force on 1 December 1986, has been ratified by the following states:
North Yemen, U.K., Liberia, France, Spain, Japan, Bahamas, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Benin, Poland.
A new proposal has been made to a U.S. Congressional Committee which would have the effect of implementing the 1976 Convention.
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