Resources

International Conventions
 

Text of US Carriage of Goods at Sea Act 1936

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode46a/usc_sup_05_46_10_28.html

Package and weight limitations for ocean transport in 148 countries

http://www.mcgill.ca/maritimelaw/glossaries/package-kilo/

Text of the Hague Rules

http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/conven/haguerules1924.html

Text of the Hague-Visby Rules

http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/sea.carriage.hague.visby.rules.1968/doc.html

Text of the Hamburg Rules

http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/un.sea.carriage.hamburg.rules.1978/doc.html

Text of the Rotterdam Rules

http://www.rotterdamrules2009.com/cms/index.php?page=about-2

Text of the York Antwerp Rules 1974

http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/cmi.york.antwerp.rules.1974/doc.html

Text of the York Antwerp Rules 1994

http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/cmi.york.antwerp.rules.1994/doc.html

Text of the Montreal Convention 1999
http://www.mcgill.ca/files/iasl/montreal1999.pdf
 

Signatories to the Montreal Convention 1999

http://www.icao.int/icao/en/leb/mtl99.pdf

Text of the Warsaw Convention

http://www.dot.gov/ost/ogc/Warsaw1929.pdf

Text of the CMR Convention  - Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of

Goods by Road 1956 and Amended Protocol 1978

http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/un.cmr.road.carriage.contract.convention.1956/doc.html

http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/un.cmr.road.carriage.contract.convention.1956.amended.protocol.1978/landscape.pdf

United Nations Treaty Collection

http://treaties.un.org/Pages/Home.aspx

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Webflyer.asp?intItemID=5248

US Transport Law

Text of the Carmack Amendment

http://law.cornell.edu/uscode/49/usc_sup_01_49_10_IV_20_B.html

Text of the Jones Act

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode46a/usc_sup_05_46.html

Text of the Harter Act

http://www.mcgill.ca/files/maritimelaw/Harter_Act.pdf

U.S. Federal Maritime Commission

http://www.fmc.gov/

The Uniform Intermodal Interchange & Facilities Access Agreement
http://www.uiia.org/

International Law

The Marine Insurance Act (1906)

http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/england.marine.insurance.act.1906/doc.html

Informational Sites

Ocean

Equasis - Look up detailed information on oceangoing cargo vessels. Registration is required,

but no fee is charged.
http://www.equasis.org/EquasisWeb/public/HomePage
 

Vessel Tracking sites - you may be able to find information on the location of a particular

vessel on these websites

http://marinetraffic.com/ais/

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml

Container Prefix Lookup - This site can tell you who is the likely owner of a container by the

container number prefix.
http://www.prefixlist.com/

Container tracker - This site has information on current container locations and links to a good

number of steamship line websites for further investigation.
http://www.track-trace.com/container

Maritime Security Council
http://www.maritimesecurity.org/

Piracy Guidance and Reports - site run for mariners by two international shipping associations

http://www.marisec.org/piracy/index.htm
 

Inland

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration website -- Use this site to look up information on

the insurance carriers of interstate trucking companies
http://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/pkg_carrquery.prc_carrlist
 

The Truckers Report - News and information on the inland trucking industry in North America.
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/

British International Freight Association (BIFA)
http://www.bifa.org

Air
 

Air Waybill prefix look up site - Find the airline that matches the air waybill prefix number
http://www.compu-clearing.com/AWB/Search.asp
 

General Marine

Incoterms Chart:
http://www.iccwbo.org/incoterms/wallchart/wallchart.pdf

Glossary of Marine Terms (Courtesy of the AMUSF)
http://www.amusf.com/glossary.htm

Maritime Dictionary

http://www.m-i-link.com/dictionary/listTerm.asp?term=AtoC

Nautical Acronyms

http://www.nautinst.org/info/acrnm_abbrev.htm

US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration

http://www.marad.dot.gov/

USCG Navigation Regulations

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=regContent

Chartering Abbreviations Terms & Definitions

http://freightagents.net/resources/chartabb.htm

Currency Conversion

Special Drawing Rights - current and historical data --IMF Website
http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/param_rms_mth.aspx
 

Currency Converter

http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

Agency/Surveyor Networks

AIMU Agency network
http://www.aimu.org/worldwide.html

Lloyds agency network
http://agents.lloydsagency.com/agentdirectory.aspx

SAMS Directory
http://www.marinesurvey.org/

NAMS Directory

http://www.namsglobal.org/

General Information

US Dept of State Travel Stats
http://www.travel.state.gov/

CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

Metric Converter
http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm

Translation - Babel Fish
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

International calling codes and world time zones
http://www.countrycallingcodes.com/

  The Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide
  http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/

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