ROTTERDAM RULES AND THE UNDERLYING SALES CONTRACT

摘要

I.INTRODUCTIONThe complex background of the Rotterdam Rules can best be understood if one understands the long path of evolution from the Hague to Rotterdam,via Hamburg.More than a century ago and under pressure from some national US legislation (Harter Act 1893),the international community rushed to put together a harmonizing instrument that would restore unification to the field of a maritime carriage and transportation law.