This book covers the whole spectrum of English shipping law, placing the highly specialized rules of shipping in a commercial context and relating them to the general principles of contract and tort law. Preface, Acknowledgements, Dry Shipping, The Commercial Background, Title to Sue, Providing Loss or Damage in Transit, The Terms of the Bill of Lading Contract, Statutory Terms of the Bill of Landing Contract, The Future? The Hamburg Rules and the Rotterdam Rules, Combined Transport, Carriage by Road - the CMR, Charter Parties, Voyage Charter Parties - Payment of Freight, Voyage Charters - Laytime and Demurrage, Time Charters, Damages and Frustration, Wet Shipping, Collisions, Salvage, General Average, Marine Pollution, Jurisdiction and Choice of Law and Security and Limitation, Jurisdiction and Arbitration and Applicable Law, Security and Interim Relief, Limitation of Liability, Index.