Carver on Bills of Lading

Carver has long been the classic and definitive treatise on carriage of goods by sea. This volume focuses specifically on bills of lading, updating, expanding and substantially rewriting all relevant parts of the 13th edition of Carver: Carriage by Sea. * A definitive text on the law relating to bills of lading * Includes exhaustive discussion of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992 which has revolutionised important parts of the law in this area * Assesses the many problems relating to carriage by sea arising from the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 * Covers important developments in the impact of bills of lading contracts on third parties, both at common law and under the 1999 Act