DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGULATION OF THE LIABILITY OF THE SEA CARRIER

The article deals with the issues of liability of the sea carrier in the event of non-performance or improper performance of obligations under the contract for the international carriage of goods by sea. The relevance of the research topic under consideration is due to the existence of a rather contradictory legal framework in the field of maritime transport of goods due to the multiplicity of legal regimes created by international agreements. The authors of the article consider the provisions of international legislation governing the liability of an international maritime carrier. The analysis of the legal regulation of international maritime transport was carried out on the basis of a comparison of Russian legislation and international agreements in which Russia participates. This approach provided an opportunity to objectively assess the current Russian legislation in the field of merchant shipping, which does not take into account new trends and international standards that have emerged in recent years. The authors of the article convincingly demonstrate the advantage of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea in 2008. before other international agreements concluded in this area and confirm the expediency of its ratification by the Russian Federation. The final results of this study were the conclusions about the need to exclude the article on navigation error from the KTM of the Russian Federation, to include in the list of grounds excluding the carrier's liability, the item on attempts to avoid environmental damage.

international sea cargo transportation, sea carrier, unification, international agreement, navigation error