Responsabilidade civil do transportador marítimo

Abstract

The universe of international trade boosted by shipping raises a number of legaland contractual relations among the actors which move this trade, showing the complexity that involves the allocation and assignment of responsibilities in major accidents involving shipping: damage and lack of load and collisions. The analysis of the liability of the carrier which is the starting point for understanding the complex relationships that develop responsibilities of the clauses of the shipping contracts, these clauses predefined before such accidents occur. These relations are governed by international maritime law, which reiterates efforts to systematization among the plethora of rules anddocument sin this type of contractual arrangement. But it is a difficult task any kind of uniform it yin these relationships because the intense conflict of interest between the active parts generated a series of conventions on the subject. In current times, we have rules that try to balance these relationships, without favoring moreor less, in terms of responsibility, the contractor or the contracted.