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The purpose of this Article is to provide an overview of some important cases relating to charter parties and carriage of goods by sea decided in the United Kingdom during 2021. Given the nature of this Article, the selected cases are discussed briefly, while some additional cases decided in 2021 are referred to in the footnotes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The long established right to limit liability in relation to maritime claims is in the modern law principally governed by the 1976 Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims. This has not established a settled legal position for questions consistently arise about the application of the Convention. In this contribution recent cases in the UK and Hong Kong relating to persons entitled to limit, limitable claims and loss of the right to limit are analysed. Also analysed is the procedural right to institute limitation proceedings and the conflict of conventions issues that may arise. There is a final comment on state practice expanding the right to limit by national legislation on the basis of the scheme in the 1976 Convention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the decline of the previously omnipotent British mercantile marine between the two world wars and the challenges presented thereby to successive British governments. Several packages of financial aid were made available to ship owners but they were limited in scope and did little to improve the trade's underlying competitive position. This in turn reflected the complex nature of the trade's problems; the unwillingness of the ship owners themselves to accept that they were in any way to blame for a faltering commercial performance; and government fears concerning the potential cost of propping up this most international of industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last four decades have seen the rise of third-party ship management and its evolution into an industry in its own right. Specifically, the present study reviews independent ship management with a view to identifying those contemporary parameters, relating to several environmental forces that can be considered to be conducive to the employment of professional ship managers. The focus of the investigation is on the comparison of two traditional maritime centres, Greece and the UK, which have been chosen after a thorough selection process and found to serve in the best possible way our research objectives. An analytical examination of the ship management sector in Greece and the UK is undertaken looking into the ship owners' viewpoint on a number of key issues. The analysed data yielded some very interesting results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]