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FINAL ACT OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA
On Sept. 28, 1978, at the London Press Centre, Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd. will be holding a one-day Seminar on “The Hamburg Rules”. Full details may be obtained from Mr Roy Baker, Legal Publishing & Conferences Dept., Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd., 16–17 Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EB. Tel: (01–353 1000, Ex. 30).
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The United Nations Conference on the Carriage of Goods by Sea was held at Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, from Mar. 6 to 31, 1978.
A Convention was adopted by the Conference on Mar. 30, 1978 and was opened for signature at the concluding meeting of the Conference on Mar. 31, 1978. It will remain open for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York until Apr. 30, 1979, after which date it will be open for accession, in accordance with its provisions.
The Convention is deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The Conference also adopted a “common understanding” and a resolution, the texts of which are also annexed to this Final Act (Annexes II and III).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the representatives have signed this Final Act.
Done at Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, this thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight, in a single copy in the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic.
ANNEX I
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA, 1978
Preamble
THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION,
HAVING RECOGNIZED the desirability of determining by agreement certain rules relating to the carriage of goods by sea,
HAVE DECIDED to conclude a Convention for this purpose and have thereto agreed as follows:
PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Definitions
In this Convention:
- 1. “Carrier” means any person by whom or in whose name a contract of carriage of goods by sea has been concluded with a shipper.
- 2. “Actual carrier” means any person to whom the performance of the carriage of the goods, or of part of the carriage, has been entrusted by the carrier, and includes any other person to whom such performance has been entrusted.
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