论适航义务是否是承运人的首要义务

Whether the obligation to make the vessel seaworthy is carrier's overriding obligation?

从承运人的适航义务和管货义务发展变化的历史出发,分析适航义务是否是承运人唯一首要义务,指出适航义务并非承运人的首要义务,它与管货义务一起,构成承运人的两项基本义务,两者之间并无地位上的差别,并提出对货损赔偿诉讼中举证责任的分担和举证顺序的看法。

Based on the history of the carrier＇s obligation to make the vessel seaworthy and the carrier＇s obligation of caring of cargo, this paper discusses that whether the obligation to make the vessel seaworthy is carrier＇s only overriding obligation. The paper points out that the obligation to make the vessel seaworthy has never been the carrier＇s only overriding obligation, it is just, like the obligation of caring for cargo, one of the fundamental obligations of carrier, and there is no any essential difference between this two fundamental obligations of carrier. Based upon the above conclusion, this paper also gives its point of view about the burden and order of proof in marine cargo claims.