《鹿特丹规则》引发的忧虑

Particular Concerns with Regard to the Rotterdam Rules

本文主要分析了《鹿特丹规则》在适用范围、责任基础、时效期间等方面存在的问题,认为基于上述问题,规则无法实现统一性的目的,反而将全球海商法法律体系置于更加支离破碎的危险境地,因此,本文建议已经签署和尚未签署该规则的国家认真考虑规则存在的问题,应选择涵盖主要运输方式的由现有国际公约与国内法交织构建的并得到广泛使用的全球性法律体系。

This article expounds on a score of problems and concerns with regard to the Rotterdam Rules(hereinafter referred to as the Rules),such as the application of the Rules,basis of liability,period of time for suit,etc.Given the continued existence of these problems,it asserts that the Rules,rather than contributes to the realization of global uniformity as it claims,splinters further the maritime law across the globe.It thus holds that it is of necessity for those countries that have signed and those that have not to consider the many problems with the Rules and the potential alternative in the form of current conventions meshed together with national law.