Ship Mort G Age Insurance

Committee Serial No. 90-43. Considers S. 2211 and related S. 2247, to amend Merchant Marine Act of 1936 by increasing Federal assistance to construction costs of river and inland waterway vessels and oceangoing tugs and barges. Focuses on the river boat, Delta Queen.

Considers legislation to require Federal Maritime Board to license foreign marine freight forwarders, to revise Maritime Administration ship mortgage insurance program to include floating drydocks construction, and to repeal lend-lease shipping contract guarantees made to domestic freight forwarders during WWII.

Thought to be the most comprehensive guide to English law relating to ship mortgages, the second edition of The Law of Ship Mortgages has been highly anticipated. This fully-updated and complete explanation provides practitioners with a practical, commercially-based, and definitive guide to the English law of ship mortgages as well as important related areas such as conflict of laws and insolvency. The authors, being seasoned practitioners themselves, bring their practical experience to bear on a number of difficult and developing areas of the law, such as: mortgagees’ duties, liability to charterers, conflicts of laws, work-outs and cross border insolvency. New to this edition: In-depth analysis of noteworthy cases such as The WD Fairway litigation, PK Airfinance v Alpstream, and Tropical Reefer and Anton Durbeck v DNB Enhanced coverage of issues such as security interests in ships, priority, and third party involvement Completely revised and reordered content, to better reflect practitioner needs Written with practitioners in mind, this new edition will be extremely useful to legal professionals working in any jurisdiction that is involved in international ship finance, as well as post-graduate students and academics.