<p>This book is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the law relating to International Sale of Goods, incoterms, carriage of goods by sea, mode of payment in international trade and topics included in dry &amp; wet shipping. Part II deals with the newly enacted Admiralty Act 2017, enforcement of maritime claims and Ship Arrest in India. The book explains what maritime law is and the application of law and the course of action for upon a legal issue with respect to international shipping.<br />
Conceptually, the book covers four broad horizons of the prevailing institutional maritime law. First, a portion has been devoted to showcasing the rich historical heritage of admiralty law and its traditions. Second, keeping in mind the interrelationship between laws and commercial practices viz. shipping and international trade and commerce, most of the topics have been explained by highlighting both the legal as well as the commercial importance and understandings of the same. Third, this book also tries to highlight the importance of the various international conventions and attempts at standardizations of laws and commercial practices that have been and are being pursued by the various maritime nations and International maritime authorities. Lastly, the complex nature of in rem and in personam jurisdiction and the interrelationship between the two, and its relevance to enforcement of maritime claims has also been discussed.<br />
The various complex processes of international trade and shipping have been attempted to be explained with diagrams to simplify the role of different parties and various steps involved in a commercial transaction. This overview of the entire shipping process makes it easier to understand and explain the difficulty in resolving the technical problems of international sales and cargo claims, particularly in-transit losses.&nbsp;<br />
This book covers the entire International Sale of Goods transaction, Parties involved and their role and performance of the contract in a sequential manner. This is a highly technical process. The book explains sequentially and provides clarity on the subject. Besides that, it refers mostly to the law at the domestic and international level revolving around a ship.</p>
