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Legal Issues Relating to Time Charterparties addresses all the major questions and issues that arise in connection with time charterparties, examining them in a logical manner, progressively tracing the subject from the creation to the termination of the contract.

All the salient and central legal aspects of time charterparties are examined, with the law analysed in its commercial context, particularly in relation to the various ways in which time charterparties may be used in shipping and international trade.

About the author:

Professor D. Rhidian Thomas is Professor of Maritime Law and Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at the School of Law, University of Swansea, Wales, U.K. His principal research interests are in the fields of maritime law, marine insurance law, international trade law and international commercial arbitration law. He previously has held positions at various universities in the UK and has lectured internationally. He is an existing Informa author.