The CMI Conference in Singapore in February 2001: A General Overview

Abstract

Salter provides some background to the position and role of the CMI since its conception in the late 19th Century. The upcoming 2001 Conference in Singapore is to be the 27th CMI Conference, and will be focused around the idea of creating a 'new way forward', by working on a new liability regime to reflect modern commercial practice and replace the Hague Rules, Hague-Visby Rules, and Hamburg Rules. Other topics for the Conference would include marine insurance, general average, a piracy model law, and the implementation and interpretation of International Conventions.

The bulk of this paper is made up of the following attachments:

Issues of Transport Law

A1 Agenda Paper for the second meeting of the International Sub-Committee

A2 Agenda paper for the third meeting of the International Sub-Committee

General Average

B1 International Union of Marine Insurance report on general average (1999)

B2 Questionnaire submitted to national maritime law associations

Marine Insurance

C Questionnaire submitted to national maritime law associations

Piracy

D1 Draft report of the third session of the Joint International Working Group

D2 Revised table of responses of the CMI national member associations to the questionnaire concerning the law of piracy