The Evolution Of Carrier’s Liability System In International Marine Transportation

The ocean is very important for human. It is the cradle of life, providing valuable resource for the survival and sustainable development of humanity. It also connects most countries and regions in the world. The sea has facilitated trade and travel since ancient times, and human culture become more rich. Even in the present era while science and technology is increasingly developed, this ancient way of maritime transportation remains one of the most important way for the international transport of goods.The carrier has been playing a key role in the practice of international marine transportation. The liability of the carrier system relates to the rights and obligations of the carrier, so there is abundant relative content in the major conventions of international marine cargo transportation which focus on the ocean carrier liability. Throughout the development process of the liability of the carrier system, we can find out that the evolution of carrier’s liability system ultimately directs to be legal and unified.The thesis is divided into five parts about carrier’s liability system in intenational marine transportation. The first part is the introduction, which mainly describes the important role of the international marine transportation, and briefly elaborates the reserch status about carrier’s liability system in intenational marine transportation. The second part analysis the concept of liability of carrier’s liability system, and defines the definition of three main issues. The third section describes the origin of carrier’s liability system. It mainly introuduce three aspects, and focus on the reason of unified process of carrier’s liability system. The fourth part lists the important performance of the legalization of carrier’s liability system, which are the four major international maritime conventions. Value analysis and interest balancing analysis are used in this part, which focus on the background and reasons of the provisions of each convention on carrier’s liability system from the perspective of legal theory. At last there is the discussion about the role that each convention has been played in the process of carrier’s liability system. The fifth part is the conclusion, which mainly re-emphasized the unified development trends of carrier’s liability system under the influence of the background of economic globalization, and considers that it is necessary for China to pefect the "maritime law"to adapt to the trend.